[lbo-talk] Marxism and religion

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 1 05:18:04 PST 2007


So Marx would consider a soporific to be maybe "somewhat" positive? Really, Joanna. Obviously he's not operating on reefer madness assumptions, but he's saying that we can understand why people would turn to religion, and that this turn has a bad conservatizing effect. The anesthetic effects deadens the pain while leaving the cause to fester and suppurate.

--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >Your point?
> >
> >
> His point is that it was considered a soporific, an
> anodyne.
>
> Not entirely positive, but not the evil it has been
> made into since.
>
> Joanna
>
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