People on the internet are saying it’s not a condemnation of religion and to Marx opium means medicine, Im confused help me bear website!

Edit: what did Karl Marx think opium was?

  • worldonaturtle [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My fault for not asking the question better. If he’s calling religion opium I need to know what his opinion about drugs was because it changes the meaning a bit of the quote.

    • thirtymilliondeadfish [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      This was written a year after the first opium war, and twenty years after confessions of an english opium eater. Opium has (and had) long been in the zeitgeist as seductive, panacea, dream-like, destructive.

      I don’t read it as supportive of either