Doesn't Obama's clinging to religion remark remind you of Marx's opiate of the masses quote? ... But nowadays, it would be more appropriate to say that "Opium is the religion of the masses". ...

This quote is reproduced a great deal and is probably the only Marx quote that most people are familiar with. Unfortunately, if someone is familiar with it they are likely only familiar with a small ...

Wheen does not, however, shy away from Marx's work. Was he, as his detractors have claimed, a self-hating Jew? What did Marx really mean by his famous line, "Religion is the opiate of the masses"?

Is it, as Marx contended, the "opiate of the masses" or might it be, as evidenced in liberation theology, the catalyst for social change? Over the past two decades Pope John Paul II has assailed the ...

Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." I disagree. I think it's more of a hallucinogen. ... Did you know... The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

Create and vote on public opinion polls, share knowledge and express opinions in a dynamic social community. ... Just because Marx said it has nothing to do with truth. ... I believe that statement is true, ...

p 248 -Philosophy above Religion, from Foreword of Marx's doctoral dissertation, ... ["Religion is the opiate of the masses."/ "Religion is the opium of the masses." = ] ... Censorship, Marx argued, ...

It is difficult to know what effect this would have on his later philosophy, but we do know that Marx would be antithetical to religious belief, at one time pronouncing it, "the opiate of the masses".