![]() ![]() ![]() He even opposed intellectuals of his time, such folks like Max Stirner, who would harass religious sites and people. ![]() Marx wasn't anti-religion by any realistic standard. In the same passage that quote is from, he also said "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions." Saying its the only peace to the struggling masses who desperately want peace as they struggle under the ruthlessness of exploitation and oppression due to capitalism. The particular quote "opioid for the masses" is specifically what Marx called religion "Opium of the people." He called it that because Opium at the time was a pain reliever. ![]()
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