Hi comrades,
We’ve received some reports recently and so I’m making this announcement.
In our rules, Lemmygrad does not lean one way or the other towards religion. This means that in effect, we accept all communists no matter their religion or lack thereof.
However, this doesn’t mean we allow feuds or unprincipled criticism. This seems to come especially from our atheist comrades, who sometimes (from what has made its way to us) see it fit to remind religious comrades that religion shouldn’t exist.
While we appreciate that the criticism is about religion and not the particular beliefs of some comrades, this kind of discourse does not have its place on Lemmygrad as we effectively don’t lean one way or another and expect users to lean that way too.
edit: as such, this reminder also applies to religious comrades.
We’re very hands off with moderation and we’d like it to remain that way in a community as tight-knit as ours.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t criticize religion or atheism, as long as it comes in good faith and is done from a Marxist basis.
This principle also applies to other contentious topics that are prone to debate on our platform.
“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” -Marx
Religion may not be the end goal, in a utopian world maybe it will be gone, but suffering exists, religion and belief exists as a result, we as Marxist Leninists, followers of SWCC, MLMs, etc need to understand that religion is here and it’s here to stay and many of the people who we will be talking to and radicalizing are religious with deeply held beliefs in their version of God(s). Militant Atheism is an objectively bad choice for our movements, especially in the global south, which is seeing a growing number of religious adherents, including leftist religious people. Liberation theology is increasing in popularity in the global south, leftwing Christianity is growing in popularity, in fact the recent Cuban family code change was established with major support from socialist Christians.
We need to stop treating religious people like they are stupid, ignorant, less than, or anything but humans looking for answers while fighting the human condition and the sufferings of Capitalism.