jim
Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
I always thought he had in mind not the Opium Wars, but the use of opiates as anesthesia and as a high-society recreational drug (or did that not start until later?).
--- James Heartfield wrote:
> the 'opium of the people'. Marx was no 'sixties
> druggy. He thought opium was
> very bad indeed. The image he had in mind was not Wm
> Burroughs but the opium
> that the British Empire had used to get the Chinese
> addicted, so they would
> be forced to give up their tea.
>
> In today's circumstances, which is something like a
> slip backwards from the
> high point of Enlightenment rationality, I can
> understand the point that the
> critics of religion are sometimes worse than
> religion itself. I mean that
> the Nietzsche/Kojeve/Sartre humanism is a
> disenchantment with humanity that
> strips out exactly that which is best in Hegelian
> Geist, the active,
> subjective side.
>
> But if anyone wants to make a Marxist defence of
> religion they should bear
> in mind that, like a good Hegelian, Marx would think
> Protestantism superior
> to catholicism, and catholicism superior to Judaism,
> and all of them
> superior to Islam, which is plainly a descent into
> mumbo-jumbo, and all
> organised religions superior to new age beliefs,
> with the worship of the
> Earth mother Gaia at the bottom of any list he would
> be likely to draw up.
>
>
>
>
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