Communism is not atheistic
Obvious: communism was not and is not atheistic. Communist-states merely removed religions that did not support the communist foundation and kept churches that obliged just like any other establishment.
History: During the Nazi period along with German Catholics in the 1920s, 1930s, and through the 1950s, the American anti-communist panic and right-wing fanatics fueled the idea that communism meant an absence of religion and or supported atheism (propaganda). This falsehood is still pushed by political conservatives, religionists and anti-communist apologists but, nowhere in the Communist Manifesto or in the USSR’s Constitution (1936 & 1977) is there a mention of atheism nor did the USSR eliminate religion. Communism does not prohibit religion and the Communist Manifesto compares Christianity with socialism. Communism illustrates an economic and social principle system, based on the notion of community (state property) ownership rather than individual (private property) ownership; period. In the early 1900s communist-states prosecuted religion because of political concerns and not atheistic grounds. Stalin reintroduced the Russian Orthodox Church: communists want to control all facets of social resources and this includes religion just like it wants to control industry and agriculture. In the 1970s and 1980s communist-states embraced Christianity: South America.
Consider: We can find an overabundance of theological arguments to justify religious crusades, riots and inquisitions but, when it comes to the so-called atheistic reasoning behind communists’ atrocities we find nothing. If communism justified itself through atheism, where is the evidence?
Communism highlights the loss of ownership and giving one’s self to a larger ideal (community or state) has more in common with theism than atheism.
Soviet Russia: the transition of Russia was from a Feudal-state to a revolutionary socialist-state lead by Lenin and other elites and not by the proletariat (working class). So, this transition lacked the capitalist period, proletariat and was brought about by elites which ruined the utopia and created the repressive state that brought tyranny, the Great Purge, the Gulags and other atrocities.
Filed by Frank at September 6th, 2008 under Contemporary