Randos And Some People Claiming To Be Communist: "Communism is not Anti Religion!"
Religion From Six Of The First Eight Texts Of The Basic Marxism-Leninism Study Guide. I'll breakdown what each quote is saying, and i'll do so honestly. So will be disingenuous or lack of comprehension and interpret the words from the various texts differently but this is what is said and meant in ML theory. The Principles of Communism: "All religions so far have been the expression of historical stages of development of individual peoples or groups of peoples. But communism is the stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and brings about their disappearance." Religion is not eternal but tied to specific "historical stages" of social development. Religion exists because material conditions produce a need for it. Once communism removes those conditions, the argument goes, the need disappears and religion withers, not through suppression but obsolescence. This denies religion any independent, transcendent basis. Three S...
