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The opium of the people or opium of the masses (German: Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German revolutionary and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people." In context, the statement is part of Marx's analysis that religion ...
19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, the founder and primary theorist of Marxism, viewed religion as "the soul of soulless conditions" or the "opium of the people". According to Marx, religion in this world of exploitation is an expression of distress and at the same time it is also a protest against the real distress.
Aron's focus is upon his criticism of the widespread intellectual adherence in his time to Marxism. The title of the book is an inversion of Karl Marx 's famous dictum that religion is the opium of the people , and is a derivation from Simone Weil 's quotation that "Marxism is undoubtedly a religion, in the lowest sense of the word. ...
Marxist–Leninist atheism, also known as Marxist–Leninist scientific atheism, is the antireligious element of Marxism–Leninism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Based upon a dialectical-materialist understanding of humanity's place in nature , Marxist–Leninist atheism proposes that religion is the opium of the people ; thus, Marxism–Leninism advocates ...
Marx (and Engels) considered religion as a component of the ideological superstructure of societies, and a pre-rational mode of thought, which nonetheless was wielded by ruling elites to obscure social relationships including the true basis of political power. In this latter sense, he described religion as "the opium of the people." [9]
"Opium for the people" – is wide-known in Russian variant of Marx's "opium of the people". Author of this variant was not Lenin, but prominent soviet writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene (Evgeny) Petrov (novel «12 chairs»). Lenin in his article «Socialism and Religion» repeated Marx's "opium of the people".
Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie (1844, introduction). Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (German: Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie) is a manuscript written by the German political philosopher Karl Marx in 1843 but unpublished during his lifetime—except for the introduction, published in Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher in 1844.
Ralph Miliband (born Adolphe Miliband; 7 January 1924 – 21 May 1994) was a British sociologist.He has been described as "one of the best known academic Marxists of his generation", in this manner being compared with E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm and Perry Anderson.