If as a leftist state project you dont have a plan to immediately rid yourself of organised religion you don’t possess pattern recognition.
As soon as you seize power you have to think about how to kill the clergy.
You should have a plan on how to neuter the clergy, but if you use organized religion to help the revolution only to clamp down violently on them - you’re going to create a corrupt failed state with failed promises.
Inherently, betraying revolutionaries who helped you involves failed promises.
The people who would carry out those orders and make those plans -inherently would not hold paramount the values of the revolution. These people would also be the ones consolidating power.
The legitimacy of your new government, founded on the abandoned values of the revolution, would fall into question.
Boom. You have a government with as much strife as the Islamic Republic of Iran, and foreign powers invade, attack, and subvert you from the inside.
The global proletariat is not going to love you for an attempt to kill all clergy. They’ll hate you even more if they see you openly planning to deceive them like the person @oliveoil@hexbear.net was quoting did.
Literally all successful revolutionary movements have had to eventually marginalise the clergy. The interests of a socialist project and the interests of the clergy will never align once an immediate threat has been dispatched, and the clergy has always and will always seek to snuff out the revolution, as indeed it did in Iran.
Anticlericalism is objectively the right position for the left, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Castro were right.
Clerics should be carefully marginalized from political power, but the way you’re expressing and conceptualizing that necessity is the worst possible way to go about it when it comes to the region
If you ever in a million years want socialism to even remotely have a fringe presence in the muslim world then you best drop this nonsense quick and in a hurry
The muslim world is not the west with its slow history of secular anticlericalism born from the fractures of Christian polities, literally the ONLY THING keeping a billion muslims from hoisting the sickle and hammer is the successful Saudi-led propaganda victory that tied militant atheism to communism in the minds of practically every muslim
Anti-colonial, anti-western bloc of people, open to wealth redistribution - perfect for communism.
But, they are deeply religious, and western and soviet thinking on how to deal with that will result in the same defeats we have seen time and time again throughout MENA.
It’s incredibly disheartening that even after all these decades, examination of WHY socialism failed so utterly in MENA still isn’t given top priority, no subconsciously everyone just assumes the machiavellian supermen of the west deemed MENA socialism to fall, and it fell, just like that, cause they used religion like a pokemon, instead of clocking it was a carefully crafted subversion of proto-socialist currents within deeply religious communities
The irony is that this is one of the easiest to solve dilemmas in socialist history, an adaptation and correction that barely take 10 mins to conceive of; “capitalism is destroying Islam, politics corrupts religion”, wow how difficult was that
Western Marxists can’t stop being Reddit atheists. China already gave us the blueprint: keep the religion, control the clergy, liquidate those who refuse to toe the party line.
Why should socialists liquidate the Roman Catholic church when it’s much more profitable to seize control of its institutions?
I don’t know what the fuck your problem is, but my “western chauvinist fascist” alarms start going off whenever I see someone going all :frothing-fash: about killing Muslims, even when “but they’re religious zealots!” is the excuse. Whatever the excuse, it still disgusts me.
The most charitable guess I can hazard is to suspect you are making the very common western atheist anti-christian mistake of generalizing your experience of being oppressed by Christianity and then applying that to a completely different religious, cultural, and political context.
Shut the fuck up, take a step back, and think this shit through.
The fact that you’ve got a bunch of people telling you more gently than I why your stance is wrong, and all you do is either shift slightly to pretend you never said what we saw you say, or double down, is disturbing. Idk whether to tell you to stop hanging out on :stormfront or to go back there where you belong. Either way, and I can’t believe I’m doing this given how much I advocated for discipline and not doing this to each other:
The marginilisation of the clergy in a place where the clergy hold any kind of institutional power inevitably involves violence.
You should always have a plan to kill the fucking priests.
You should always have a plan to kill the fucking priests.
So you should lie to religious people to get them on your side during the revolution and then massacre their leaders which they respect afterwards? In the context of this thread of comments, this is what you’re saying - we’re discussing a negative response to the statement “Come on, burn the mosques after the revolution, doing it before is just dumb, you’ll lose the religious supporters”.
You should absolutely let whoever wants to help you tear down the bourgeois state. and then seize on power and solidify a proletarian state. Look to your namesake on this one. Clergy participated in the February revolution, they were allowed in the soviets, and then they were marginalised by force when necessary.
Your plan should not be created immediately after the fact. You should have a plan beforehand, because it must not contradict the premise of the revolution.
If you don’t manage your promises to the religious population, and you inevitably have to break them ad-hoc - then your legitimacy as a government falls into question.
There is a huge difference between destroying religious authority/political organization vs burning churches and killing people for being clergy. The first one is absolutely necessary and the second is ridiculous and reactionary.
What we are taking about is claiming to have a cross-political revolution combing various religions, ethnicities, and economic outlooks (capitalism, socialism, communism, anarchism, etc) - only to completly fuck them over after the fact.
All this knowing full well beforehand.
The Islamic revolution that brought this government did this too by killing and purging communists. This doesn’t end well.
They immediately got invaded and dragged into a war worse than the Russia Ukraine war in terms of destruction and casualties, and they struggle to this very day to keep it together.
This was caused in part by the Iranian Supreme leader calling for the overthrow of the Ba’athist government, not by the betrayal of the revolutionaries. It was not a result of the betrayal. This is… I don’t know what you’re trying to do here, but it doesn’t seem cogent.
I heard one person say something to the effect of
Come on, burn the mosques after the revolution, doing it before is just dumb, you’ll lose the religious supporters
If as a leftist state project you dont have a plan to immediately rid yourself of organised religion you don’t possess pattern recognition.
As soon as you seize power you have to think about how to kill the clergy.
Edit: This is not a joke.
You should have a plan on how to neuter the clergy, but if you use organized religion to help the revolution only to clamp down violently on them - you’re going to create a corrupt failed state with failed promises.
Inherently, betraying revolutionaries who helped you involves failed promises.
The people who would carry out those orders and make those plans -inherently would not hold paramount the values of the revolution. These people would also be the ones consolidating power.
The legitimacy of your new government, founded on the abandoned values of the revolution, would fall into question.
Boom. You have a government with as much strife as the Islamic Republic of Iran, and foreign powers invade, attack, and subvert you from the inside.
The global proletariat is not going to love you for an attempt to kill all clergy. They’ll hate you even more if they see you openly planning to deceive them like the person @oliveoil@hexbear.net was quoting did.
Literally all successful revolutionary movements have had to eventually marginalise the clergy. The interests of a socialist project and the interests of the clergy will never align once an immediate threat has been dispatched, and the clergy has always and will always seek to snuff out the revolution, as indeed it did in Iran.
Anticlericalism is objectively the right position for the left, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Castro were right.
Clerics should be carefully marginalized from political power, but the way you’re expressing and conceptualizing that necessity is the worst possible way to go about it when it comes to the region
If you ever in a million years want socialism to even remotely have a fringe presence in the muslim world then you best drop this nonsense quick and in a hurry
The muslim world is not the west with its slow history of secular anticlericalism born from the fractures of Christian polities, literally the ONLY THING keeping a billion muslims from hoisting the sickle and hammer is the successful Saudi-led propaganda victory that tied militant atheism to communism in the minds of practically every muslim
Exactly.
Anti-colonial, anti-western bloc of people, open to wealth redistribution - perfect for communism.
But, they are deeply religious, and western and soviet thinking on how to deal with that will result in the same defeats we have seen time and time again throughout MENA.
It’s incredibly disheartening that even after all these decades, examination of WHY socialism failed so utterly in MENA still isn’t given top priority, no subconsciously everyone just assumes the machiavellian supermen of the west deemed MENA socialism to fall, and it fell, just like that, cause they used religion like a pokemon, instead of clocking it was a carefully crafted subversion of proto-socialist currents within deeply religious communities
The irony is that this is one of the easiest to solve dilemmas in socialist history, an adaptation and correction that barely take 10 mins to conceive of; “capitalism is destroying Islam, politics corrupts religion”, wow how difficult was that
Western Marxists can’t stop being Reddit atheists. China already gave us the blueprint: keep the religion, control the clergy, liquidate those who refuse to toe the party line.
Why should socialists liquidate the Roman Catholic church when it’s much more profitable to seize control of its institutions?
This is an important failure too, as it contributed to the death of the USSR - ala Afghanistan.
I don’t know what the fuck your problem is, but my “western chauvinist fascist” alarms start going off whenever I see someone going all :frothing-fash:
about killing Muslims, even when “but they’re religious zealots!” is the excuse. Whatever the excuse, it still disgusts me.
The most charitable guess I can hazard is to suspect you are making the very common western atheist anti-christian mistake of generalizing your experience of being oppressed by Christianity and then applying that to a completely different religious, cultural, and political context.
Shut the fuck up, take a step back, and think this shit through.
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The fact that you’ve got a bunch of people telling you more gently than I why your stance is wrong, and all you do is either shift slightly to pretend you never said what we saw you say, or double down, is disturbing. Idk whether to tell you to stop hanging out on :stormfront
or to go back there where you belong. Either way, and I can’t believe I’m doing this given how much I advocated for discipline and not doing this to each other:
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This is a clearer argument than what you said originally.
This was what you said before, which is very different from the idea that the clergy should be marginalized from political power.
The marginilisation of the clergy in a place where the clergy hold any kind of institutional power inevitably involves violence. You should always have a plan to kill the fucking priests.
So you should lie to religious people to get them on your side during the revolution and then massacre their leaders which they respect afterwards? In the context of this thread of comments, this is what you’re saying - we’re discussing a negative response to the statement “Come on, burn the mosques after the revolution, doing it before is just dumb, you’ll lose the religious supporters”.
You should absolutely let whoever wants to help you tear down the bourgeois state. and then seize on power and solidify a proletarian state. Look to your namesake on this one. Clergy participated in the February revolution, they were allowed in the soviets, and then they were marginalised by force when necessary.
Your plan should not be created immediately after the fact. You should have a plan beforehand, because it must not contradict the premise of the revolution.
If you don’t manage your promises to the religious population, and you inevitably have to break them ad-hoc - then your legitimacy as a government falls into question.
“eventually marginalize” and mass murder/incineration are two very different things wtf
There is a huge difference between destroying religious authority/political organization vs burning churches and killing people for being clergy. The first one is absolutely necessary and the second is ridiculous and reactionary.
Succesfuly doing one tends to require the other. You have to plan for killing the priests. I wont apologise for being right.
This is a goofy affectation, no one wants you to “apologise”
Impossible to apologize for being right when this KKKracKKKer is consistently and deliberately wrong
What we are taking about is claiming to have a cross-political revolution combing various religions, ethnicities, and economic outlooks (capitalism, socialism, communism, anarchism, etc) - only to completly fuck them over after the fact.
All this knowing full well beforehand.
The Islamic revolution that brought this government did this too by killing and purging communists. This doesn’t end well.
The islamic republic is currently in charge and the communists are dead. It worked out for them.
They immediately got invaded and dragged into a war worse than the Russia Ukraine war in terms of destruction and casualties, and they struggle to this very day to keep it together.
This was caused in part by the Iranian Supreme leader calling for the overthrow of the Ba’athist government, not by the betrayal of the revolutionaries. It was not a result of the betrayal. This is… I don’t know what you’re trying to do here, but it doesn’t seem cogent.
Okay. Recalibrating.
Based
Hoxha-posting on this and only this issue on this website is morbidly funny.
I’m glad someone got it