I’m talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I’m interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief

  • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    141 year ago

    that the first (utopian) communists got their ideas from religion.

    More from the primitive pre-class society, but true, some religions preserved those ideas (though that probably means they were super backwards), and this just as all other utopian versions of socialism never spread far or survived long surrounded by the clas societies. And those ideas eventually often morphed into monasticism which was just feudal or slave exploitation sprinkled with the holy water.

    I do think the vanguard should be athiest, but when there are progressive religious forces—like in current Nicaragua or in the US during the civil rights movement— they should be allied with.

    Absolutely, i was never against allying with relatively progressive religious movements, i just vehemently oppose revising the marxist principles in this direction. In the same meaning as famous Lenin analogy about road and swamp.

    • QueerCommie
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      71 year ago

      I believe many religions had (some) decent foundations and they lose those once they stop being religions of the oppressed and become religions of oppressors. Take Christianity, in its early days it was radical and anti-colonial, but it was absorbed by Rome and created the Catholic Church. 🤮