Who said this....Is it funny ???
2006-06-08 04:39:23 · 5 answers · asked by Kraljica Katica 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Czech novelist Milan Kundera wrote this in his first novel, The Joke, in Prague in 1967. The book traces the fortunes and amours of a young student, Ludvik, after his exasperatingly patriotic girlfriend decides to show the authorities a postcard he had written her as as joke: “Optimism is the opium of the people! A healthy atmosphere stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky! Ludvik.”
2006-06-08 04:46:46 · answer #1 · answered by mercedeshoff 2 · 7⤊ 0⤋
“Optimism is the opium of the people! A healthy atmosphere stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky! Ludvik.”
2006-06-08 11:51:41 · answer #2 · answered by franja 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They already answered that is Milan Kundera.
Yes, it is funny, but on a subtle way.
Religion is the opium and try to keep ties into a hope of a better future its also a religion; Understand the irony about it?
Read this book and you can just feel inumerous not evident tastes of ideas.
... long live Trotski
... be shame to give up, Gogol.
2006-06-09 06:15:54 · answer #3 · answered by carlos_frohlich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If optimism is the opium of the people, then it is my drug of choice. I said this.
2006-06-08 20:21:20 · answer #4 · answered by Mandalawind 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is the fact that marxism has caused hundreds of millions of people to be murdered and many times that number to be enslaved....funny?
2006-06-08 11:43:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋