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
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
my problem with presenting the few utopian ideals in modern religion as evidence that its leftist actually is that just about any conclusion can be justified by religious books, sure the first utopians got inspiration and more importantly justification from religion but people got inspiration for anything and everything from religion back then and most of those ideas where horrible(those movements and idea didnt come from religion they came from good people who happen to live in a society which was inundated in religion). besides we have entirely discarded such utopian ideologies and most things spawned from religion for that matter why hang on to it and protect it as if it were more special than any other ideology. i dont want a ban on religon (tho as a product of such bans i cant deny their effectiveness) but im certainly distrustful.
I don’t think religion is inherently good, but if there happens to be a progressive religious force support it.
The key question here is “progressive compared to what”, remember that even feudalism was once progressive compared to slavery.
Progressive in this case means anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist etc like Malcom X who was based and also Muslim.
A lot of those were basically forced into it by the relentless western attacks. It will be interesting to watch after US hegemony crumble.