I personally think trying to work with them instead of against them in places were they are deeply integrated with the population would be the obvious choice.

I am ofcourse talking exclusively about the Catholics only and not the Orthodox or Evangelist.

PD, im not religious. Im a Budhhist, but i dont think of it as a religion.

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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Im not very well educated in Christianity, but as far as i know Jesus was aligned with communist ideals, he was extremely egalitarian

There is not much sense in trying to argue this talking point, Jesus was progressive for his time but framing him as aligned with communist ideals is a big stretch and frankly disrespectful to communists. I recommend you reading Engels' Socialism, utopian or scientific, you'll see that Jesus falls on the utopian camp with nothing to offer other than idealism.

Do you think we should think of the catholic church as a possible ally or would that be counterproductive?

The catholic church will never ally with any communist movement, the entire institution is practically merged with European finance capital, we could pragmatically, and tbh opportunistically, some of their rhetoric but other than that meh.

Do you think anti-religion is fundamental to Marxism?

Religion is incompatible with materialism, still no need to be an asshole towards religious people.

Do you think the anti-religious stance of the Soviets was a mistake?

China figured out the correct policy later on. However Lenin did not held this anti-religious stance, it was mostly a failure by the leadership in educating the party.

https://redsails.org/on-the-question-of-religion/

https://redsails.org/the-attitude-of-the-workers-party-to-religion/

[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

True, the furthest you could probably go with Jesus is use him to argue in favor of politically neutral pacifism which is what Jehovah's Witnesses do.

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 5 days ago

Liberation theologists thought differently.