Book · 1955 · Nonfiction

The Opium of the Intellectuals

Name: The Opium of the Intellectuals
Author: Raymond Aron

Transaction Publishers · 467 pages

★ 5.9 editorial score

Marx called religion the opium of the people. Aron answered that Marxism is the opium of intellectuals, then took apart the founding myths of Left, Revolution and Proletariat. Paris shunned him for decades.

Genre

Intellectual history

Subject

Marxism

Time

1955

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Quote · 1926

“Marxian socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion—how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men and, through them, the events of history.”

John Maynard Keynes

Quote · 1942

“Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.”

Joseph Schumpeter

Quote · 1942

“In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.”

Joseph Schumpeter