Tag: karl marx

• Opium of the People

  

  Why would a socialist such as myself choose to be in any way religious? Did not Marx famously describe religion as the “Opium of the people”? Well…yes and no. In Context, the statement was issued by Marx from a structuralist-functionalist perspective meaning that it is like a balm for the oppressed to find meaning in…

  crowrider1990

  April 17, 2022

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