The new Y.C.L. publication Cogito criticises the foreward to the Russian edition of Marx and Engels on Religion. It describes as " a very misleading estimation " the foreward's claim that Marx's famous phrase " the opium of the People " is the cornerstone of the Marxist outlook on Religion. Cogito interprets the passage as meaning "that in the suffering of this ee some kind of consolation escape or drug fulfils a need that people have. (1!)
The WeekThe Week Vol. 7, No. 22, c. 1 June 1967
Young Communists Show the Real Meaning of ‘opium of the People’
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