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Originally Posted by Irenicus
"religion is the opium of the masses" (I'm paraphrasing here), which he means in a class-struggle context in that the upper classes will try to keep the masses in line through religion, among other things.
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It's not that simple. To quote him
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Originally Posted by Karl Marx
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
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Not "tool of the oppressor" but "sigh of the oppressed creature" which sounds much more like a "drug" produced by the proletariat itself or at least chosen by rather than forced upon them.