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Debunking the ‘Opium of the People’ Maxim: Football is about Politics and Class Struggle

• December 6, 2020, 4:31 pm

True, for ruling classes, football is often intended to be the ‘opium of the people’. But it would be naive to assume that the people, in their own ‘intellectual’ capacity, are unable to take ownership of that medium, as they have done in many other contested spaces.