• Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    And religiosity increases under war and poverty, the very conditions wherein the contradictions of capital break and make way for communism.

    So your greatest point of opportunity coincides with the highest point of religiousity. And you want to pursue the the most heavy handed route against that population?

    Read Marx. Just fucking read Marx man. The fact that religion is the opiate of the masses does not justify it holding political power nor does it remove the fact that organised religion has always ended up fucking over the left. Again, how did working with organised religion work out in Iran?

    • oliveoil [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      You can fail early by being too weak on religion - as per Iran.

      You can fail later by being too hard on religion, drag down your allies with you, and poison-pill the Muslim world - as per Afghanistan.

      The death of the USSR is why our world is so miserable and bleak today. And the Afghan failure was a domino in that. I encourage you to learn those lessons as well.

      Or you can come up with a more clever, thorough, and calibrated plan than:

      • kill all of the clergy
      • burn down all of the places of warship