Opium and the Family in the Writings of Karl Marx.
Marx's assertion that religion "is the opium of the people" is his most famous invocation of opium, but references to the drug appear throughout his work, providing a window into his theories of gender, the family, and the state. Responding to moral panics around a spike in rates of infanticide by o...
| Publicado en: | Science & Society Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 370 - 389 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jul2022
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