Stuart Hall viewed popular culture as the "opiate of the masses."

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Stuart Hall did not view popular culture as the "opiate of the masses." This phrase was coined by Karl Marx to describe religion as a tool used by the ruling class to control the working class. Stuart Hall believed that popular culture was a site of struggle where dominant and subordinated ideologies clashed, and that people actively negotiated and contested its meanings.

Stuart Hall Viewed Popular Culture as the "Opiate of the Masses