‘...the opium of the people’? Religiosity in socialist new towns by Márton Berki, Brigitta Sivadó

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From the Opium of the People to Acid Communism: On the dialectics of critique and intoxication by Thijs Lijster

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Connections between Marxism and religion by Fábio Régio Bento

“…According to our work hypothesis, in Nicaragua religion was not the opium of the people, used for its social anesthesia, but the promoter of social changes, and through international diffusion of this experience, mainly in the context of socialist countries, the alliance between laic and Christian socialists in Nicaragua promoted also a shift in the traditional hermeneutic paradigm which reduced religion to the permanent condition of opium of the people.…”
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Is God his Law? Or how religious education affects the dehristianization of mass consciousness. by Larysa Andreyeva, Katerina Elbakyan

“…And a year later the "deeply religious people" will betray their Church and, on the whole, enthusiastically accept the communist ideology that proclaimed religion as "the opium of the people", "the heart of the heartless world", "the spirit of soulless order", "the sigh of the oppressed creature". …”
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TUHAN FAKTA OBJEKTIF: ANALISIS WACANA Al-QUR’AN SURAH Al-FATIHAH AYAT 5 by Hasanuddin Chaer, Abdul Rasyad, Ahmad Sirulhaq

“…This article discusses discourse relating to the divinity and Karl Marx's comments on Religion by title “Religion as the ‘opium of the people’. He said religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, if people are to know and understand the real world, they must give up superstitious beliefs because they have a narcotic effect on the mind. the first requisite for the happines of the people is the abolition of religion”. …”
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