In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone’s accounts but their own.
Raymond Aron Quotes
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
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| Birth: | 14th March, 1905 |
| Death: | 17th November, 1983 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Journalist, Philosopher, Sociologist |
About
Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist. He is known for his lifelong friendship, sometimes fractious, with Jean-Paul Sartre.He is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people in contrast, Aron argued that in post-war France Marxism was the opium of intellectuals.
