Re: Psycho-active and recreational drug use
Posted: 25 Jun 2010
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Marx wrote: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. ... 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.
The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion ... 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.
starchild wrote:Is it the assumption in these discussions, that the desire for an altered consciousness (whether through drugs, chemicals, hypnosis or the opium of the people) is inherently wrong?