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Andrew M. McKinnon^1 Opium as Dialectics of Religion: Metaphor, Expression and Protest This is the premise of a Marxian analysis ...

In what is quite possibly the greatest work of Marxist literary theory, Frederic Jameson argues that ... texts come before us as ...

“Opium at present is in great esteem, and is one of the most valuable of all the simple medicines”: thus the first edition of th ...

polysemic – and an unavoidable dimension of Marx’s writing (Kemple 1995). More than one meaning can be compressed into a metapho ...

more important as a means for ridding himself of the carbuncles which caused him so much suffering in later life (McLellan 1973: ...

(Berridge and Edwards 1980:97–105). Unlike many of the liberal reformers, Marx and Engels don’t blame ‘bad mothers’ or the ignor ...

a trope for conflict, but it implied certain oppositional groups, and a certain oppositional rhetoric about the trade. In China, ...

Towards a Reading of Marx’s Critique of Right: Introduction Having destabilized the “truth” of our established understanding of ...

While Marx never explicitly refers to The Phenomenology of Spirit(Hegel 1994), here we find an account of the dialectics of Prol ...

In the conclusion to “Towards a Critique” (Marx 1977a:73), Marx points to a similar dialectical relationship between philosophy ...

“Theses on Feuerbach”: “Feuerbach resolves the religious essence into the human essence. But the human essence is no abstraction ...

These passages begin with an essentially dialectical logic. Religious suffering is both “expression of” and “protest against”, b ...

Ausdruckmeans “expression”, something ex-pressed, squeezed-out. As an important commodity, opium was pressed out of poppies, but ...

situations with neither heart nor spirit. I quoted Engels earlier, when he definesAufhebenas “‘Overcome and Preserved’; overcome ...

dream” in a positive sense, as parallel to the “radical revolution” and in con- trast to the “merely political revolution” of th ...

InThe Political Unconscious(1981), Frederic Jameson argues that if Marxist analysis is to escape a narrow and unconvincing instr ...

this in Marx’s thinking. On the contrary, all dialectical thinking insists on, and consists of, the reflexivity of critique crit ...

vulgatastill meant “piety” or “worship”. The idea that religion “names a sys- tem of ideas and beliefs” emerges for the first ti ...

ena that we call religion: regardless of what instance we’re talking about, they are all non-contradictory moments, and all have ...