“Of Gods, Myths, And Marxists”, Swarajyamag, August 6, 2023:
“It is rush hour on tirade street in Kerala. If last week was filled with outrage over death chants against Hindus, by the Muslim League at a town in North Malabar, this week’s fracas-du-jour is the Communists declaring that, while Ganesha is a myth, Allah isn’t.
It all began when AN Shamseer, Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, implied at a public event in Cochin that Lord Ganesha was a myth. This was, at one level, a sly dig at Prime Minister Modi, who had once said that Ganesha could be construed as a symbolic representation of the marvellous surgical advances made in ancient India.
At another, baser, level, it was a low-brow regurgitation of the standard Marxian line, that religion was the opium of the people. That is why Shamseer tried to intellectualize his words by couching them in a broader urge for scientific temper…..”
Read the full article at Swarajyamag.com
If religion was the opium of the people (what Shamseer opines), then will he accept Islam is an opium? But he dares not. This is the crux of Marxian ideology– a controversial theory that teaches people to know on which side their bread is buttered!