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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 ...
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Irreligious is the second studio album by Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell, released in 1996.It features some of the best-known songs of the band, such as "Opium", "Ruin & Misery", "Awake!"
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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. ... [I]t has been continually used ... as an opiate for the people."
The article currently states the 19th century meaning of opium as a painkiller, opium wars, baby doping, and hallucination. Of course, Marx could have easily meant religion was a pain killer to reality, since it prevented the proletariat from rising up against the bourgeoisie in this life instead of waiting for "justice" in the afterlife.
Opium fürs Volk (Opium for the people) is the seventh studio album by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen. Although it's not considered a concept album, it has a central theme of religion (exemplified by the intro "Vaterunser", "Die zehn Gebote" and "Paradies"). It is regarded as one of the best Die Toten Hosen albums.
A plaque which commemorates International Opium Commission, outside of the Peace Hotel on the Bund. The International Opium Commission was a meeting convened on February 1 to February 26, 1909 in Shanghai that represented one of the first steps toward international drug prohibition.