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From: ded@aplvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Give me that old time opium!
Message-ID: <549@aplvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 10:46:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  9 10:46:49 1984
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I read somewhere that when Karl Marx uttered his "religion is the opium
of the people" remark, he meant it in a positive way.  Positive in the
sense that opium at the time of Marx was an invaluable medicine.  Can
anyone shed any light on this?
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					Don Davis
					JHU/APL
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