Honestly not an expert, but here’s a relevant excerpt from Lenin’s The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion:
“Marxism is materialism. As such, it is as relentlessly hostile to religion as was the materialism of the eighteenth-century Encyclopaedists or the materialism of Feuerbach. This is beyond doubt. But the dialectical materialism of Marx and Engels goes further than the Encyclopaedists and Feuerbach, for it applies the materialist philosophy to the domain of history, to the domain of the social sciences. We must combat religion—that is the ABC of all materialism, and consequently of Marxism. But Marxism is not a materialism which has stopped at the ABC. Marxism goes further. It says: We must know how to combat religion, and in order to do so we must explain the source of faith and religion among the masses in a materialist way.”
I personally agree with Lenin’s overall sentiments in the article, both that religion should be a private matter from the perspective of the state but not the party, and that Marxism itself is materialism that is atheistic and promotes atheism by default. I don’t know to what extent this agrees or disagrees with existing beliefs on Lemmygrad on the relationship between Marxism and religion, but I just wanted to vaguely put this out here.
I would also agree with that. Religion should not be above materialism in any public matter, but practicing religion in private or in groups without political influence sounds reasonable to me
Honestly not an expert, but here’s a relevant excerpt from Lenin’s The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion:
“Marxism is materialism. As such, it is as relentlessly hostile to religion as was the materialism of the eighteenth-century Encyclopaedists or the materialism of Feuerbach. This is beyond doubt. But the dialectical materialism of Marx and Engels goes further than the Encyclopaedists and Feuerbach, for it applies the materialist philosophy to the domain of history, to the domain of the social sciences. We must combat religion—that is the ABC of all materialism, and consequently of Marxism. But Marxism is not a materialism which has stopped at the ABC. Marxism goes further. It says: We must know how to combat religion, and in order to do so we must explain the source of faith and religion among the masses in a materialist way.”
I personally agree with Lenin’s overall sentiments in the article, both that religion should be a private matter from the perspective of the state but not the party, and that Marxism itself is materialism that is atheistic and promotes atheism by default. I don’t know to what extent this agrees or disagrees with existing beliefs on Lemmygrad on the relationship between Marxism and religion, but I just wanted to vaguely put this out here.
I would also agree with that. Religion should not be above materialism in any public matter, but practicing religion in private or in groups without political influence sounds reasonable to me