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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