Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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Karl Marx (via philosophy-quotes)
So happy someone finally has the opiate quote in context.
Karl Marx liked a lot of things about religion! He thought it a great way to instill morality and philosophy into the masses. His goal was a world where that wasn’t needed.
He also saw the religious institutions as beholden to hegemonic capitalist interests, which they were/are
Professors who don’t know Marx fuck this up all the time.
(via brosephstalin)
