2006-06-18 21:48:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Marx described religion as the opium of the people. In so doing Marx sought to indicate that religion was an opiate that deadened the senses of the people to the crass exploitation to which they were subjected by the ruling classes of society.
2006-06-18 21:50:49 · answer #1 · answered by ai_nacco_2000 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Karl Marx
2006-06-18 21:56:55 · answer #2 · answered by in vino veritas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Karl Marx.
He was German, by the way. The Russians, specifically Lenin and the Bolsheviks, were the first to really act on his ideas.
2006-06-19 13:49:29 · answer #3 · answered by mle_trogdor2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that would be karl Marx - who's not Russian, I'm sure you can find a russian who repeated these words but Marx is credited as having the first one to say this
2006-06-18 21:51:41 · answer #4 · answered by Ourson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about any Russian wirters but German Writer Karl Marx first said it in his book Das Kapital.
2006-06-18 22:38:55 · answer #5 · answered by silondan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody. The quote should be
"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."
and its Karl Marx
2006-06-18 21:52:27 · answer #6 · answered by Stanley K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Karl Marx - referring to the fact that it made them 'high' almost, and forgot how bad their lives were. He said that people had to get rid of religion totally to be able to actually improve their lives.
2006-06-18 22:40:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Religion is the opium of the people" is one of the most frequently quoted statements of Karl Marx, from the introduction of his 1843 work Contribution to Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right.
2006-06-18 21:50:56 · answer #8 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people know that it is Karl Marx. But everybody does not know that this opium would not go. If you chase away raw opium, it would come back as cocaine or heroine.
2006-06-19 00:27:19 · answer #9 · answered by das.ganesh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahaha
thats a very nice question
actually there is no such russian writer who said that
KARL MARX IS THE ONE WHO SAID THAT BUT HE IS NOT A RUSSIAN, HE IS A GERMAN
2006-06-18 23:06:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋