Giovanni Dall'Orto 🇮🇹 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 Profile picture
Militante #gay. Storico. Compagno. Antifascista. Ex giornalista. Nonviolento. Provvisoriamente vivente. Pro-Palestinians, anti-Hamas and all religious fanatics
Aug 19 7 tweets 2 min read
I beg to differ. #Atheism just says there is no god. That's all. The rest is politics.

Marx is often misquoted as saying that "religion is the opium of the people". But the full quote says: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and 1. 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".
Quite a difference.

30 years ago Marxism, "the god that failed", as Koestler defined it, disappeared from the 2.