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...

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Published in:	Science & Society Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 370 - 389
Main Author:	Singhal, Maya
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Jul2022
Subjects:	England China Infanticide Moral panics Working class State power Opium Commodity futures
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