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12-22-2007, 09:05 PM

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I always thought that Marx's "opiate of the people" remark was a positive thing. Wasn't he referring to religion as a good way for people to be able to deal with life, rather than as a pejorative "religion is for stupid sheep" type of thing? I could be totally wrong on that.

Marx does not like religion, but he understood why people valued it. In his view, one has to cast it aside to overcome alienation and false consciousness.

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