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This was his real quote LMAO (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Communism is some GOOD SHIT

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nevertheless, another reading can be made of Marx. The often cited phrase--"religion is the opium of the people"--is truncated. What follows this remark lets it be understood that human beings need opium, because they are metaphysical animals who cannot avoid asking themselves questions about the meaning of life. They give what answers they can, either adopting those offered by religion or inventing new ones, or else they avoid worrying about them.

You know, he could have bothered to actually read Marx before saying dumb shit.

The full quote from Marx, in context, is:

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. 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.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also what comes immediately before:

For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.

The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis [“speech for the altars and hearths,” i.e., for God and country] has been refuted. Man, who has found only the reflection of himself in the fantastic reality of heaven, where he sought a superman, will no longer feel disposed to find the mere appearance of himself, the non-man [Unmensch], where he seeks and must seek his true reality.

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world.

You see Peterson cannot elaborate on this because he's a religious person who hates modernity, so this short circuits his entire belief system and ideology.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt he even read it at all. Didn't he once got owned in a debate by Zizek and it came out he barely skimmed though Manifesto and that was all about marxism he ever had read?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's true lmao

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Why bother reading when your hordes of impressionable twitter followers aren't going to read either? He gets paid either way.