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opium of the people Marx’s classic metaphor for religion. [Ger. Hist.: Critique of Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right”] See : Delusion How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Previous to the Conference, an influential party official, Pan Yue, had called for the party to abandon its Marxist view of religion as 'The opium of the people. Opium of the People won good reviews and began to win friends--in particular Sir John Lawrence, head of the Great Britain-USSR Association, who informed the Foreign Office of the importance of Bourdeaux's work, and Leonard Schapiro, Professor at the London School of Economics, `who said the work was justified academically'. This has most cogently been expressed by Marx and Engels in their condemnation of religion as the opium of the people, and their assertion that religion under socialism will no longer have any social base and wither away. |
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