Fuckin losers just tryna tell other people how to process the existential ennui of this meaningless existence. If you find that with some new-age pagan shit than comrade its all good, when we cut off bezos's head i'll help you make a pentagram out of the blood or something idk what you do.

  • corporalham [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Orthodox marxist states (USSR, CCP) had state atheism, but marxist theory is ultimately a material theory. It does not include the spiritual, which can either be interpreted to mean that there is no permissible spirituality within the marxist worldview, or that nearly any spirituality is compatible so long as it follows the material beliefs of marxism. This can be seen in South America with liberation theology.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Christian socialism has been around forever, even older than the USSR.

      “A Plea for Unity of American Socialists,” by George Herron. [Nov. 1900] The stenographic report of a speech delivered by Christian Socialist stalwart George Herron to a mass meeting of Chicago Socialists on Nov. 18, 1900. Herron states that only disunity and factional strife could derail the socialist movement from ultimate victory (“for a generation or a century”) and arguing that a united movement could make use of the quasi-religious sensibilities of the educated segment of society in a mass movement for human liberation. An excellent exposition of SPA ideology from the university professor who co-founded the Rand School of Social Science.

      From the Marxist internet archive

      Edit:

      American political campaigns have long been a sort of Punch and Judy show; and it has been all one to the working man, whether he was looking at Re-publican Punch or Democratic Judy. The strings of both parties were in the capitalists’ hands. As evidence of this, you will only need to read the recent editorial of representative Republican newspapers, expressing most anxious solicitude as to the reorganization and purity of the Democratic Party, with wise propositions as to its necessity for the development and protection of our institutions.

      Damn, could have been written today