The Real McMarx

I offer this genuine quote from Karl Marx to Montana Mike "Religion is the opiate of the people"a quote which in my opinion has a particular relevance to the situation in the United States, regarding organised religion, marxists say that by offering a better life in some mythical hereafter,the general populace of any country are sedated by religion and so have no will to alter society to benefit them.
It is important to note that Marx is from an earlier age,and used language that may seem flowery in our modern world but can still be relevant.
Modern writers on philosophy and economics may be more easily understood,one I think of is A L Morton,who wrote an interesting book "A Peoples History of England"and an interesting novel "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists"(the unexpurgated version) from around the turn of the century by Robert Tressel,which was the nom de plume of Robert Noonan,a painter and signwriter in Hastings England,anyone who worked in the building trade will relate to this writer and have one or two chuckles.
On to the weather forecast,it is a lovely sunny day but the forecast is for a couple of inches of snow this weekend,a mere bagatelle after our visit to Kansas City last february,thats cold !!!
Strained my back lifting turf in the garden so I am out of commission for a couple of days till it recovers,which it usually does in that amount of time. Ciao Graham