Uhm... Marx did opium?

[Rafiq]

True or false?

[StalinFanboy]

Everyone did opium back then.

[Rafiq]

Did this influence his works? (Specifically on Dialectics?) :D Jk jk

[Os Cangaceiros]

He'd definitely be in the drug talk group.

[Widerstand]

Did this influence his works? (Specifically on Dialectics?) :D Jk jk

Hegel certainly overdosed on opium.

Nietzsche was straight edge.

[Pavlov's House Party]

who cares

[bcbm]

opium is awesome

[Rafiq]

Hegel certainly overdosed on opium.



Now THAT I could believe.

[#FF0000]

Opium was p. much a medicine back then, I think.

[Zanthorus]

True, he took it as a medicine. This is from a letter from Jenny Marx to Engels dated 12th April 1857:


Chaley’s [i.e. Karl's] head hurts him almost everywhere, terrible tooth-ache, pains in the ears, head, eyes, throat and God knows what else. Neither opium pills nor creosote do any good.

[Jazzratt]

True, he took it as a medicine. This is from a letter from Jenny Marx to Engels dated 12th April 1857: I like that they used creosote as well, isn't that the stuff you put on your fence? :lol:

[bcbm]

yeah its always as "mecidine" i mean kurt cobain only took heroin for his "stomach problems"

[TC]

Everyone used opium in the 19th century and in the latter 1/3rd of the 19th century everyone was using cocaine. The Victorians were not conservative when it came to drug use!

[Paulappaul]

True or false?

I'm pretty sure Morphine which doctors prescribe all the time is an Opioid derivative. There's really nothing weird in the usage of it.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Everyone used opium in the 19th century and in the latter 1/3rd of the 19th century everyone was using cocaine. The Victorians were not conservative when it came to drug use!

How would they have reacted to cannabis smoking?

[bcbm]

How would they have reacted to cannabis smoking?

the queen smoked that shit

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

the queen smoked that shit

I'm given to understand that it was used in medicinal tinctures, but smoking it for pleasure was something else, I think.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Working parents would give laudanum to keep their kids calm and off the streets back then. Opium was used in medicine and also - obviously - abused back then.

Makes you think twice about the "Opiate of the masses" line eh? In that context, Religion is a false cure for social ills just as opiates sooth rather than cure pain - not as the right-wing describes the quote as some kind of attack on people who believe in religion.

[synthesis]

Working parents would give laudanum to keep their kids calm and off the streets back then. Opium was used in medicine and also - obviously - abused back then.

Makes you think twice about the "Opiate of the masses" line eh? In that context, Religion is a false cure for social ills just as opiates sooth rather than cure pain - not as the right-wing describes the quote as some kind of attack on people who believe in religion.

I don't understand how anyone who looks at the full quote could possibly see it as attack on religious people or really even religion at all. He makes it very clear that the problem is with conditions, not with religion. I think the hard anti-theism was really Bakunin's thing.

[Vanguard1917]

I'm given to understand that it was used in medicinal tinctures, but smoking it for pleasure was something else, I think.

I'm sure Queen Victoria looked forward to her 'time of the month' like it was Christmas.

It is for one's menstrual pains.

'Course it is, your majesty... ;)

[the last donut of the night]

I'm given to understand that it was used in medicinal tinctures, but smoking it for pleasure was something else, I think.

not sure about england, but chocolate bonbons made with weed were pretty common in the US

[Os Cangaceiros]

420 smoke weed everyday.

there you have it, folks. I'm suprised that Zanthorus didn't mention this.

[synthesis]

420 smoke weed everyday.

This was also his user name on XBox Live, correct?

[Jimmie Higgins]

I don't understand how anyone who looks at the full quote could possibly see it as attack on religious people or really even religion at all. He makes it very clear that the problem is with conditions, not with religion. I think the hard anti-theism was really Bakunin's thing.

Yup. I also don't understand how the right-wing thinks that Obama is an anti-business socialist after giving 700 billion to the banks and making the working class pay for it. But they do.:rolleyes:

[Os Cangaceiros]

Obama, the Kenyan Marxist with an economic policy team made up entirely of hedge fund managers and investment bankers, and who's latest pick for chief of staff (Bill Daley) spent seven years working for JP Morgan Chase (including working on it's executive committee and supporting NAFTA during his time with the Clinton administration).

His stealth communism really is quite insidious.