• MxM111
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    61 year ago

    Religion is the opium for the masses. Nothing new here, really.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Opiates include artificially lab-constructed products that are based off of the opium that comes from poppies.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              Yeah. Pretty much. The original quote by Marx would’ve been in German I assume - which might make a difference. Looking at the US’s painkiller problems “opiate” is possibly more relevant. It’s a negligible difference either way. (Unless a linguist knows better)

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                1 year ago

                I suspect back then, when original quote was created, most, if not all, opium accessible to the public was natural and not a synthetic opiate. To translate it to opiate is likely incorrect then. That’s why I was a bit confused by correction “opiate”.

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 year ago

                  Historically speaking I imagine that’s true. I’m not sure why anyone felt the need to “correct” the word in the first place. Especially if it transpires they did so incorrectly…