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So whenever someone quotes Marx's 'Religion is the opium of the people' they should be putting it in context with the sentences above which precede that sentence and clarify his position.
beginning with "Yet anybody..." is your thought not that of Marx. And no, Marx, against the Marxists, did not imagine real happiness comes from looting. opium has a positive sense, as a consolation, and a negative one, as a retreat from reality
This is Marx after the opium part: "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Putting it in context with what comes before, we can see this is only one point among many more.
And the earlier points are completely forgotten because they are more inconvenient to a binary understanding as Marx vs Religion rather than Marx AND religion:https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1027198815860862976?s=19 …
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