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
you’re not a communist just for agreeing with communist beliefs. putting them into action means being part of an organized collective; a party
I think the USSR went too far with pretending certain events never happened, which makes those events seem more significant than they were. Example: When they edited out Trotsky from pictures, it was completely unnecessary, it’s easy to explain Trotsky’s faults and whitewashing history by acting like he wasn’t an instrumental part of the Revolution is a band-aid solution to the problem of revisionism and reformism.
i think China are perfect on this front. They condemn both the ultra-left who uphold Mao but denigrate Deng and the ultra right who denounce Mao and only uphold Deng. China recognises that the cultural revolution was an abhorrent mistake whilst also praising Mao as the hero of the nation who delivered them from chaos and allowed Deng to bring them into modernity. Mao was a great leader, but not infallible : the same goes for all socialist heroes.
I agree modern China is pretty Even-Keeled and as much as I like Maoist era China, they were kinda open and out propaganda at times this song is a banger but the lyrics are a bit intense for a dude that had reasonable criticisms of certain policies of Mao’s. I mean I would need to look more into him but I checked a bit on him and he seems ok on the surface
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I firmly believe that you guys raise many good points but I’m a black man in America so I still have a few homegrown beliefs that I can’t shake. I think belief in God or a god is unfairly discriminated against in leftist circles. Fascists aren’t evil because they have faith, their evil because they use faith as a shield and spear to attack others.
isn’t that like one of the ten commandments? using god to promote fascism sure seems like taking their name in vain.
Judging from the lack of any noticeable reaction, he’s definitely not angry. Considering the multiple times he punished Israelites for way less, and taking pardon me for saying that, holocaust into consideration, god is a fascist himself.
Or he, idk, just don’t exist
You’ve nailed how I feel about it. Like, I don’t have a problem with a religious person; what I have a problem with is the organized ‘religious’ using their religions as a cudgel.
Yeah religion doesn’t have to be like our modern Abrahamic religions in the west. Everyone has some sort of ‘religion’ anyway that helps us understand the world, why not share it with our community? It’s only a problem when it crosses into orthodoxy
not everyone has religion, no not even any spiritualness plenty of us dont need it and its frankly offensive you would suggest otherwise. and if it doesnt have to be like it is then why is it the way it is? idk 2 millennium at least of it being the way it is isnt counter acted by u saying “its actually great”.
I don’t consider myself religious or spiritual but acknowledge that communism and Marxism occupies a similiar place in my brain as a compass that helps me process and understand the world around me. I don’t think its offensive to suggest that this is a near universal part of the human experience. And the last 2000 years religion has been used as a tool by the ruling classes, who is to say religion can’t exist in a fundamentally different way in a classless society?
dialectical materialism is not a compass it is a method it doesnt tell u arbitrary values with no justification that some dude thousands of years ago thought were good or benefited him, it allows u to actually think for yourself and analyze things, and if it a fixed compass for you, always pointing the same way with no understanding or reason then u arent using it you simply picked an application of it by someone you licked and follow it dogmatically and yes it IS offensive to suggest everyone else does the same. and sure who knows what religion will look like in a classless society but the imperialist slaver and misogynist propaganda wont magically disappear the religious text that it is in so unless people decide to dump the very foundational ideas and texts and costumes of the most popular religions that exist right now it will always be a threat to said society.
It feels like you are willfully misinterpreting what I am saying tbh. Compass here is operating as a metaphor, and I don’t like the implication that I am somehow perverting dialectical materialism because you don’t like my turn of phrase. Human beings aren’t computers, we have subjective experience that amounts to more than just logical operation. Regardless of whether we are applying science or not, there is still an experiential aspect of everything we do. And when did I say I was talking about modern popular religions when I was merely talking about religion in the abstract? I was clearly not suggesting that Christianity should be incorporated into Marxism or encouraged in socialist society or something
The proles, especially in the West, often don’t want to read dry, jargon-filled theory unless they are already radicalized. Western socialist publications would be better served through allegory, metaphor, and subtext in fiction—ranging from comics, to fan fic, to short stories, short films, indie games, and other mediums of what gets lumped into “entertainment”—than continuing the focus on more articles on why x’s theory is better. Of all the socialist-friendly publishing I’ve ever come across, none of them has ever had a fiction section. NONE. With no plans or interest in one. I think we’re doing ourselves a great disservice and limiting our reach by not producing and giving greater focus to spreading fictional content that doesn’t adhere to capitalist ideology or its underpinning assumptions about the world.
My views regarding prostitution is probably one most people on the left won’t agree with. I do consider sex workers as workers, however, rather than working towards legalising prostitution, we should work towards eliminating the circumstances that force people to turn to prostitution in order to feed themselves. Ideologically, I’m not comfortable with the implications that it commodifies the human body and turns it into nothing more than a tool to be used by others. This is the very view that slave owners had, turning humans into nothing more than property to be used.
Arguably, it’s the same view that Marx has of prostitution, but somehow it’s not popular in Leftist circles.
