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A meme image. In the background is an anime woman wearing a white and blue ringer shirt, black tights, a yellow miniskirt, pink visor and her brown hair in Sailor Moon-esque tailed buns. She stands before a railing overlooking a forest and Ferris wheel in the distance. Written over the woman is a Marx quote from his "A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Introduction" from 1843, "Religion is the opium of the masses" is positioned over her chest. In the foreground is a phone held sideways, taking a picture of this portion of the quote, and the woman's chest, with the caption "people who don't read Karl Marx", implying that the violent atheism espoused by some communists is due to plucking this partial quote out of its whole context.

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A meme image. In the background is an anime woman wearing a white and blue ringer shirt, black tights, a yellow miniskirt, pink visor and her brown hair in Sailor Moon-esque tailed buns. She stands before a railing overlooking a forest and Ferris wheel in the distance. Written over the woman is a Marx quote from his "A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Introduction" from 1843, "Religion is the opium of the masses" is positioned over her chest. In the foreground is a phone held sideways, taking a picture of this portion of the quote, and the woman's chest, with the caption "people who don't read Karl Marx", implying that the violent atheism espoused by some communists is due to plucking this partial quote out of its whole context.
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LucyWrambles (lucywrambles@blackshuck.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 08:35:33 JST LucyWrambles
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@Radical_EgoCom Agreed, with caveat.
Marx calling religion the "opiate of the masses" must be taken in the historical context of when he wrote it. Opium was not seen the same in 1843 as it is now.
Unfortunately, comrades tend to zero in on that one portion, rather than its entirety, and do not consider the greater context.
The Deprogram boys had a brief chat about the USSR's suppression of religion being one of the grand failures of that state that led to its downfall. Ep 7, worth a listen.

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