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
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
Our internalized liberalism (Westernism?) means that all socialist groups in the West inevitably become about being The Good Ones who know better than everyone else and is a fundamental reason why there will never be a successful revolution in the current world order. ML spaces like this one included.
Agreed, here’s an article on how it’s actually linked to Christianity: https://blackagendareport.com/western-marxism-loves-purity-and-martyrdom-not-real-revolution I believe there’s also a Midwestern Marx book coming out on it too.
The purity fetish and the crisis of western Marxism I believe it’s the title, I’ll buy it when it comes out this week
If Christianity blunts revolutionary consciousness, why did Cuba, a majority Catholic country pre-Castro, make a revolution?
The argument doesn’t apply to Cuba. They didn’t have an established Marxist tradition when the revolution happened to have to debate each other’s purity of socialism. Another aspect is that the revolution wasn’t communist originally, they just want sovereignty and they found that in socialism after the revolution. Once the whole country was governed by democratic centralism there were no factions to debate how to have the purest seizure of power.
Because the contradictions risen so much that people just stopped paying attention to the usual “ora et labora”. It’s was also far from the only revolution in christian country but all of them, successful or not, went despite the churches.
Because then there’s a sociology and cultural aspect that isn’t being applied during the period of 60s to 70s the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America started to have Archbishops that preached liberation theology which in turn laid some foundations for a Marxist gateway if you will, of people starting to lean really left. This is apparent in El Salvador and Nicaragua FMLN and FSLN
Absolutely, it has been a part of our culture for hundreds and hundreds of years
This space is about education, not necessarily itself being a revolution. And there are not just North Americans here. Awareness and presenting a discussion space in itself is critical because the controlled internet is not exactly very welcoming of communists. This “space” migrated from Reddit. You need numbers and educated notions for revolution.