I’m a Marxist marten here to talk about politics, tabletop games, Linux, and to help along my fellow anticapitalists.
My politics may not be identical to yours, but that’s okay; hub.workersofthe.world is open to all revolutionary anticapitalists who stand by the entirety of the working class without discrimination.
@TrippyFocus Which is, again, extremely recent, and also fraught with contradiction among its voting populace. It has an amazing constitution, but it only barely squeezed through (and is still only that — a constitution).
Russia is not at all stable, nor is the rest of the Soviet bloc. It moved straight from the ossified and besieged socialism of the 70s and 80s into fascism, immediately embracing capitalism in crisis, and that’s where it’s remained.
@harc A state being bourgeois is not the only material condition of that state. The west in the 90s saw immense growth and stability, which meant that it could afford more rights to the groups that it had previously marginalized. We’re now seeing that rolled back as said stability comes crashing down.
China, meanwhile, is quite new to stability, so we’re only now seeing rights there increased. The USSR, one could argue, never really saw stability due to constant sanctions and external threat.
@harc almost like material conditions of countries on opposite ends of the globe or literal decades apart make a difference
@HiddenLayer555 I have more respect for you than to believe that you can’t imagine how organized religion whose institutions had a great deal of power might get it into their heads to reshape their religion’s theology in order to say that one must follow that religion to be secure in the afterlife.
Jesus’s whole cult was about, yes, salvation through his sacrifice. This is Christianity 101.
@HiddenLayer555 Which does not require following Jesus, yes. That is a comparatively novel implementation. But hey, congrats on being able to CTRL+F the bible for “hell” and then acting like you know anything about Christian theology.
@HiddenLayer555 Golly, look at all those verses that say you go to hell if you don’t follow Jesus in specific.
@HiddenLayer555 sighhhh.
He’s not.
Liberation theology would disagree.
The idea that the guy who literally started…
No, he didn’t. That didn’t come about until Dante in the 13th century.
Have you ever actually read the bible? I have
No, you clearly have not lmao
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Who gives a shit. “Opium of the masses” doesn’t mean what you think it means. Stop dividing the working class; militant atheism died on Reddit a decade ago for very good reason. These days, Marxists support religious freedom.
@Protestation A strangely reactionary sentiment.
@eldavi nah, we still absolutely would. Capitalism leads inevitably to fascism.
Very nice! I appreciate the effort you put into changing it.
@the_q It’s axiomatic. If you want to debate like that, I’m sure Jordan Peterson would be delighted.
@the_q Just because something is socially constructed doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
@Zachariah Yes, though given he was a soldier and did indeed kill people, I think it speaks more to the inherent worthlessness of private property.
@Ardens Welfare with demands…so like, every welfare state.
@Comrade Ferret The fact that I can say this in a supposedly communist forum and have as many people upvoting it as downvoting it really speaks volumes about how absolutely fucking cooked Lemmy is.
@Archangel1313 > implemented because of capitalism’s failures during the Great Depression
Yes, exactly. People were organizing. Rising up. Capitalism did approve those programs, in order to keep them from doing so. Or do you think that you no longer live under capitalism, because capitalism “would never have approved” welfare?
Socialism is not when you have a welfare state.
@Archangel1313 The welfare state was the capitalist’s answer to working class organization and its victory in the Soviet Union. It was a concession and therefore a means of control. It’s also an alarming sign that capitalism seems to believe it no longer needs it.
@Protestation idealism