• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I get it, but these substances aren’t “legal” in the same sense meant in the quote. Amphetamines, in the US at least, is a Schedule II drug. Meaning it needs to be prescribed.

    If you’re using it in the same way you would cocaine, you’re abusing it. Which is still very much illegal.

    • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s not the point. The point is that workers are so dehumanized and alienated from their life essence that they need stimulants just function under the capitalist mode of production. The legality or the drug itself isn’t the point. Had antidepressants and antianxiety meds existed in Marx’s time he would have mentioned that instead. Indeed, elsewhere he talks about opium

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Again, I get the point. But using a (mostly) illegal substance as the example is just silly. At that point why not point out that literal cocaine can be prescribed by a hospital?