Red_Scare [he/him]

There’s exactly the same sentiment expressed in one of the exhibits in the Berlin Stasi museum (predictably).

I think the term originated within CPGB (a Marxist-Leninist party in the UK) so Trots had nothing to do with this one.

By the way, Vijay Prashad explained it very well a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsqE9kEsDVY

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7357419/6115188

Stalin had nothing to do with Hungary though, that was Khrushchev.

Little known fact, it also seems to imply no actual literal murdering people

I’m sorry, I don’t mean to diss Christianity as such! I do think Bible itself offers little to Marxists but there’s more to Christian history and tradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker-priest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Hagerty

I’ll be honest, I never looked deeper into this. I was a militant atheist for most of my life and I’m only starting to broaden my horizons, hence my harsh initial reply for which I apologise. Old habits die hard I guess. Our enemy is capital, not religion.

Bible is extremely self contradictory, you can fish out quotes to support nearly anything, as proven by history over and over: https://philb61.github.io/

What Bible simply does not offer however, is a direct condemnation of slavery which would only take one short passage. There’s nothing to counterbalance the quote I pasted above, or the quote from the old Testament discussed here: https://time.com/5171819/christianity-slavery-book-excerpt/

Given how self contradictory the Bible is, support for slavery is one of the very few points you can get from it with any level of certainty. You can do some mental gymnastics and infer a condemnation of slavery from general statements like “setting the oppressed free”, but then you can make pretty much any other concievable point by selecting the passages that can be interpreted to support your point, and ignoring the passages where your point is directly and explicitly refuted.

No idea why you’re being downvoted comrade.

New Testament was written in the time of widespread slavery and this is what it had to offer:

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ, not with a slavery performed merely for looks, to please people, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul. Render service with enthusiasm, as for the Lord and not for humans, knowing that whatever good we do, we will receive the same again from the Lord, whether we are enslaved or free.

Pretty sure if capitalism existed at that time, it would have the same advice to give wage slaves.

diamat sucks, change my mind