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    • Gonzalo [they/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      That too.

      aka why modern China is extremely against drugs.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
        ·
        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