Excerp from william Hinton's "fanshen"
Honestly an important example for communism being anti-religious. This idea gets thrown around a lot as if it means communists will oppress you for being a Christian or something, but they don't mention that there were fucking geomancers and mud idolatry cults taking people's income to throw in the river to get a blessing and not die from drinking dirty water. This is still a huge issue all around the world, like in India with the Brahmin mafia needing to get cut in on everything that happens in society to just burn some incense and say some words or else everyone will be punished by this god or that god, or the so-called Hyenas in Malawi who are hired to sleep with kids after their first menstruation in order to "cleanse" them, or the Catholic church for, well everything they've done. It makes sense that communists would fight these things, and they are religious things, but it doesn't have to mean that a communist must be anti-religious to fight specific examples of abuse from metaphysical thinking that they see around them.
I have noticed lots of examples of people using religion to "justify" actions that are right at home with the playbook of a Snake Oil Salesman.
yeah it is quite literally the oldest trick in the book and the origination of class society
I'd argue that animal husbandry was the start, but that's definitely the origin of the First Estate
yeah maybe so, I feel like people were practicing animal husbandry under primitive communism though right? I would assume the first instance of having a class divide socially would have required a religious concept to justify it
Killing God with the power of friendship
Bringing God to trial and sentencing him to death with the power of friendshipThe history of trying things that aren"t people - gods, animlas, weather, dead folks, ideas - and passive sentence on them is a good fun wacky slice of history.
That monkey bastard when the villagers took his ass to court:
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
If God existed, I would fistfight him to the death. Anybody who created all this shit is no comrade of mine.
They also constructed, in entire country, comprehensive network of magical amulets and wards against the return of the god of dysentery, though godless commies call those "plumbing" and "healthcare".
free people from bondage to... astrology
Wow, didn't realize the Chinese Communist Party hated women!
Today while engaging in class struggle I summoned Ch'i-t'ien to try and weaken him so our struggle session would work better. He is so fucking powerful. I'm not at a power level to do this alone. I barely escaped with my life and I'm dialectically injured to a great amount, but I think I'll make it. I can't imagine what he would do to a new, unsuspecting maoist. I'm scared that I will have to face him again soon if I ever want to continue astral projecting. I'm currently reading the little red book and drawing marxist energy from my copy of Capital to try and heal as quickly as possible. Please be safe everyone. Ch'i-t'ien is much stronger than I first imagined and we will have to do this together if we want to slay a god.
Geomancy is such a powerful subclass with excellent AoE crowd control abilities
