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Quote is from "Dizzy with Success" by Joseph Stalin: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1930/03/02.htm

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[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Sure, but he's not decrying any form of atheism, he's not saying the bells shouldn't be removed eventually.

He's decrying these actions not as inherently bad, but as a part of jumping too far ahead trying to implement their own ideas of socialism and central governance, especially in one tiny area, without resolving class contradictions. So instead they just fuel infighting in the working class, rather than achieve progress. He's actually arguing for a degree of class reductionism.

How could there have arisen in our midst such blockheaded exercises in “socialisation,” such ludicrous attempts to overleap oneself, attempts which aim at bypassing classes and the class struggle, and which in fact bring grist to the mill of our class enemies?

They could have arisen only in the atmosphere of our “easy” and “unexpected” successes on the front of collective-farm development.

They could have arisen only as a result of the blockheaded belief of a section of our Party: “We can achieve anything!”, “There’s nothing we can’ do!”

They could have arisen only because some of our comrades have become dizzy with success and for the moment have lost clearness of mind an sobriety of vision.

To correct the line of our work in the sphere of collective-farm development, we must put an end to these sentiments.

[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He is calling out excessively strident atheism though.

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

He's calling out premature atheism, that's about all.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

He's actually arguing for a degree of class reductionism.

Is it though? In the context it kinda seems like the opposite.