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"Why Communism and Religion are incompatible"

Religion is the opium of the people,' said Karl Marx. It is the task of the Communist Party to make this truth comprehensible to the widest possible circles of the labouring masses. It is the task of the party to impress firmly upon the minds of the workers, even upon the most backward, that religion has been in the past and still is today one of the most powerful means at the disposal of the oppressors for the maintenance of inequality, exploitation, and slavish obedience on the part of the toilers.

Many weak-kneed communists reason as follows: 'Religion does not prevent my being a communist. I believe both in God and in communism. My faith in God does not hinder me from fighting for the cause of the proletarian revolution.'

This train of thought is radically false. Religion and communism are incompatible, both theoretically and practically.

Every communist must regard social phenomena (the relationships between human beings, revolutions, wars, etc.) as processes which occur in accordance with definite laws. The laws of social development have been fully established by scientific communism on the basis of the theory of historical materialism which we owe to our great teachers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. This theory explains that social development is not brought about by any kind of supernatural forces. Nay more. The same theory has demonstrated that the very idea of God and of supernatural powers arises at a definite stage in human history, and at another definite stage begins to disappear as a childish notion which finds no confirmation in practical life and in the struggle between man and nature. But it is profitable to the predatory class to maintain the ignorance of the people and to maintain the people's childish belief in miracles (the key to the riddle really lies in the exploiters' pockets), and this is why religious prejudices are so tenacious, and why they confuse the minds even of persons who are in other respects able.

The general happenings throughout nature are, moreover, in no wise dependent upon supernatural causes. Man has been extremely successful in the struggle with nature. He influences nature in his own interests, and controls natural forces, achieving these conquests, not thanks to his faith in God and in divine assistance, but in spite of this faith. He achieves his conquests thanks to the fact that in practical life and in all serious matters he invariably conducts himself as an atheist. Scientific communism, in its judgements concerning natural phenomena, is guided by the data of the natural sciences, which are in irreconcilable conflict with all religious imaginings.

In practice, no less than in theory, communism is incompatible with religious faith. The tactic of the Communist Party prescribes for the members of the party definite lines of conduct. The moral code of every religion in like manner prescribes for the faithful some definite line of conduct. For example, the Christian code runs: 'Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.' In most cases there is an irreconcilable conflict between the principles of communist tactics and the commandments of religion. A communist who rejects the commandments of religion and acts in accordance with the directions of the party, ceases to be one of the faithful. On the other hand, one who, while calling himself a communist, continues to cling to his religious faith, one who in the name of religious commandments infringes the prescriptions of the party, ceases thereby to be a communist.

The struggle with religion has two sides, and every communist must distinguish clearly between them. On the one hand we have the struggle with the church, as a special organization existing for religious propaganda, materially interested in the maintenance of popular ignorance and religious enslavement. On the other hand we have the struggle with the widely diffused and deeply ingrained prejudices of the majority of the working population.

N. Bukharin & E. Preobrazhenky, ABC of Communism, Chapter 11: Communism and Religion

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they're mostly going after tiktok because it's foreign owned. if they were going after social media platforms for being pro palestine, they'd also target youtube, twt, tumblr, &c.

won't deny that tiktok being permissive abt palestine content is part of it, but the main motivation is just that tiktok isn't owned by american capitalists.

would be very funny to watch the US state try and ban youtube, or facebook, &c.

All this really proves is that Communists need to stop relying on corporate platforms, stop staring at their screens 24/7 and get out there.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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not that i enjoy nitpicking like this but the HRE was basically a moribund entity past the 17th century, that's why it basically folds over and abolishes itself by the time of napoleon (early 19th century). by the 1700s (at least the late 1700s) "feudalism" was functionally dead in europe although there was still of course widespread absolutism

capitalism was already on the way to becoming well established by the 1700s. should've just said 'late 1500s voice' instead. there

[person in the late 1700s voice] and just when are you going to end feudalism? the holy roman emperor will just send hundreds of thousands of troops to quell your rebellions. we aren't getting anywhere like this, and haven't you heard the monarchs are adopting enlightened ideas anyway? there have been no successful capitalist states, all of the attempts have turned into failures or have installed a new monarch

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During the Spanish revolution and the ensuing civil war, Spanish workers and peasants engaged in anti-clerical violence against the Church that spent centuries raping, molesting, murdering, beating, abusing, and oppressing them.

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realllll as hellllll

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God isn't real. Sorry.

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purplegingers is annoying mostly because instead of doing something productive he just throws himself into some dumb media spectacle. it's the kind of thing that sounds cool but doesn't materialize into anything in real life. he sometimes pumps RAHU which is fine i guess but RAHU has its own problems.

Not all heroes wear capes

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asking u cuz u seem at least a few notches above ur average tumblr “communist”. what (if anything) works of kautsky are worth reading?

The Class Struggle, The Social Revolution & The Road to Power

Will add that Kautsky made some hard breaks with Marxism through the 1910s and 1920s (this is why Lenin and Luxemburg criticize him for), so late Kautsky and early Kautsky read like two different people sometimes.

Also recommend Mike Macnair's Revolutionary Strategy (he derives a lot of his politics from Marx, Kautsky and Lenin).

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So is the phenomenon of your blog just being you picking thoughtless baby brain fights with everyone happening because you’re an op or just because you’re embarrassingly dogshit at being a communist?

third option: i'm bored. i use tumblr like it's twitter. Federal agents are not making fake marxist blogs on tumblr.com and picking petty fights lol. i used to do serious posts but ran out of serious stuff to post. you could have the dignity to not post this one anonymously at least surely.

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Most leftists aren't even communists or anarchists

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there's a difference between theft and exploitation

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considering 'decolonisation' during the 20th century only really just produced violent capitalist states they're not wrong lol

unless you want to pretend that india isn't basically run by the most insane fascists that country can ever produce

the anarchists are at it again

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maybe so and so does need to be fired

A lot of “leftists” will proudly have all the Correct Popular Issue Opinions™️ but are not at all left wing in their actions, and perhaps the easiest sniff test is seeing how someone talks about their own workplace.

People who say “so and so needs to be fired” are at best liberal in their actions. I don’t care what so and so did. Capitalism has propagandized us all to blow “mistakes” (which by the way are increasingly poorly defined) out of proportion and to be irrationally callous about what firing does to a person. In the present reality it is best to just assume nobody’s performance is fireably bad. A handful of people you would “wrongly” defend from the wrath of unemployment is a better “problem” than perpetuating the idea that it’s a justified sentence for a growing number of people.

Your concern at the workplace should be the well being of you and everyone else on equal or lesser footing as you. It really is that simple.

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people always frame "revolution" in millenarian terms ("The Revolution") and it's always weird.

Communism is liberation from capitalism and imperialism, and the people who don't understand why someone would want to be free from these things are the people who, generally speaking, will either not benefit from the revolution or will fare poorly under the revolution. There are of course workers without class consciousness who might hold delusions about one day becoming a capitalist, but even they typically understand at some level that the capitalist system does not work for them. Those who genuinely believe that capitalism is good and beneficial for all are almost always not proletarian.

There are people who like to hype up a "fully automated luxury communism" post-revolutionary vision, acting like "everyone will benefit", and while there may be some point in the future once the revolution is finished and the bourgeoisie is no more where this vision could be achieved, none of that is our immediate goal.

The communist revolution will not benefit everyone. It will benefit the proletariat at the expense of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeois and petit-bourgeois types who currently benefit from capitalism and imperialism are rightfully afraid of a revolution because they would be oppressed classes under a revolutionary government. We don't need to sugarcoat it. They can choose to join the proletariat. They can choose to work for a living and participate in society as equals to the rest of us.

If you're talking to a fellow worker, then your role is to explain to them how they're being exploited and oppressed and what the path to liberation looks like. If you're talking to a capitalist, whether they're a small business owner or a multi-millionaire, then there's not much else to say to them besides "if you stand in our way you will be crushed." They should have no delusions about salvaging any remnant of their bourgeois status once the revolution arrives.

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kill yourself you fascist pig. the revolution will come for you

Lol.