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  • CrispyFern [fae/faer, any]
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    3 years ago

    Someone on here once said "the war on drugs has ruined that quote" and I've been thinking about that ever since.

      • Gonzalo [they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        That too.

        aka why modern China is extremely against drugs.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Marx's quote is actually about 2-4 years after the first opium war, so he was likely thinking of it while writing that line.

        • dave297 [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          That and China had famines due to land being given over to opium production and the drug selling triads were violently anti-communist during the civil war

    • Gonzalo [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yup, the misunderstanding of the quote is due to internalized racism / classism.