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“[A]usterity-loving pundits and policy makers really are like medieval doctors who believed in treating illness by bleeding their patients, making the...”
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“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of...”
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“[I]t is not particularly difficuly to move towards a solution the problem raised by Hume, which Kant believed he had solved. The belief in the...”
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
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I am twenty-nine, pocket flap folded
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And I am smiling I am looking out at a world that
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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.
Karl Marx (via unitedworkers)
The context helps clarify the fact that he did not think it was necessary or wise to stamp it out. Marx himself used opium as a painkiller. Religion hinders the development of class consciousness, but it is also something that has helped the proletariat emotionally and spiritually survive the alienating nature of capitalism.
(via amoralasylum)
G.A. Cohen makes the same point very well in If You’re an Egalitarian…
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G.A. Cohen makes the same point very well in If You’re an Egalitarian…
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