How did communists build a strong base among working class people in certain countries if lower classes are generally more religious and conservative?
How did communists build a strong base among working class people in certain countries if lower classes are generally...
Jayden Ward
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Adam Phillips
Orthodox communism is way more conservative than what faggots have turned it in.
Lucas Parker
By killing the working class.
Caleb Hall
Traditional Marxism is pretty anti-religious, though. It also calls for internationalism, abolition of gender roles, etc. without the rhetoric of modern identity politics.
They killed the ones who disagreed with them but when revolutions occurred they had strong popular support.
William Myers
How did they gain power without popular support?
Bentley Wright
Communists promised more gibs than the system they sought to replace
Jayden Adams
They didn't. Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1953, both saw unrest caused by workers against the communist government.
Levi Taylor
The conditions and treatment of the working classes was very abysmal in most of these countries.
Immediate concerns of fair pay, food and repression trump religiousity.
Also a large part of the working class are urbanized and relatively less religiously minded.
Also its a lie to say that the authoritarian conservative ruling class are more religious than the working class. They certainly did not practice what they preach.
Anthony Anderson
Not really. Antireligiousness is a simple case of revolutionary radicalism, where the church was a servile institution just like in France.
Internationalism is also loaded with the primacy of the revolutionary nation.
And of course, no shit about gender roles existed in communist states.
Overall, it mimics the history of liberalism and Revolutionary France in all those aspects. When the system fails them, the lower classes immediately become disillusioned with every sort of culture that ties them to it. Communist were radically anti-religious and avant-guarde because the Lower classes abandoned religion and conservatism, not the other way around.
Both were simply conquered by a revolutionary "Empire", and their communist government were simply a puppet government. Czechoslovakia unrest was likewise socialist.
Cameron Hughes
How do criminal gangs come to dominate a neighborhood without popular support?