We are cooked in Mexico too, i've seen first-hand the growth of these pentecostal churches in the countryside.
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Maybe reviving the Maximato would make wonders against these prosperity gospel cultists.
Yeah, the atheism-turned-socialist YouTuber Genetically Modified Skeptic made a great video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePRA9yVdQE
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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It was the perfect capitalist Trojan horse, because it convinced people to stop thinking of progress as a shared national endeavor and instead view it as an individual responsibility—which meant they didn’t need to organize into pressure groups, political movements, labor unions, student unions, or any other collectivist entity that the U.S. government considered “leftist” or “communist.” It was a resounding success and turned the world’s poorest people—in sub-Saharan Africa—into rabid, money-obsessed capitalists, albeit without capital.
Yup and enough of them saw material reward to back that ideology up. Take away that material and that ideological leverage then goes away with it. But that would require effective authority against it and the limitations of such freedoms (good!). If liberation theology is the way forward then it needs to develop the lines to counter the above (eg shia islam was able to do it to some extent in Iran and Yemen) - it cannot be passive in the face of imperialism and equivocate because of the secular lines it sees in the USSR/PRC etc
Although a lot of people are blaming evangelicals, I came to stress here that Lula made a very shitty government, running on the program of Brazilian financial sector. After four years of austerity measures, and ruining opportunities to approve popular laws like the end of the 6x1 work schedule, it's no surprise that Lula's government is weak.
Lula made a very shitty government
Anti-marxism-leninism / anti-USSR / "anti-stalin" has only one destination in the end: fascism. If they want to crocodile-cry "authoritarianism" and then cede the ground to the authority of capital and fascists then they are either incomptetent, malicious or both.
Although a lot of people are blaming evangelicals, I came to stress here...
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Folks need to internalise that the material always comes before the ideological. CIA and their willing compradors have no weapon through imperialist versions of religion if the material conditions provides immunity against it. I would even say these malignancies would have grown even without western intelligence help.
https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
I often get the sense that the autodynamism of dialectical materialism is severely understudied and undervalued in the West.
It's important to remember that while the clergy has some political power, we should always also focus on what we are not accomplishing as a communist movement and why
Is Lula even worthy of being called a reformist? I'm curious. I know almost nothing about Brazilian politics. I just know Bolsonaro is shit and Lula has gotten some praise in some left-ish circles in the past but seems to pan out as socdem at best?
Well, some people would say Lula is a social liberal at best. The Workers' party, though, used to be quite diverse, with different caucuses and militant groups. However, ever since Lula became president, the new left (neoliberal) group took over and every year the party turned right at every new presidential election. WP militancy also became very depoliticized and turned into a Lula's personality cult.
I've heard him called a "Statist" which I think is very apt in the wrong ways. His central policies are just the peaceful maintenance of bourgeois state institutions and remaining social programs, but without even proposing reforms. It's stagnation as ideology.
Lula was a socdem from the beginning and Brazilians comrades were critical of him. Especially since the all of the Brazilian Left had to swear allegiance to the PT. He also screwed over Maduro and blocked Venezuela’s ascension.
BUT he is the lesser evil and Brazil is one of the major powers of the global south - the literal first acronym in BRICS - which Lula aligned with. Bolsonaro Jr is likely to cut ties and subordinate nearly 200 million people to the Imperial Central itself. Further isolating Cuba, Nicaragua and to an extend Venezuela and Mexico who both now have to walk on eggshells.
This is definitely a major blow for China and the Free Peoples of the World.
Abolish religious tax exemptions. A church is a theater that performs readings of folklore and should be taxed accordingly.
More often it erases very much that folklore you mentioned.
It's such a stark difference reading the complex debates in the Soviet Union and then seeing someone vote for a certain candidate because their pastor told them to.
It's in all christian countries i think. In Poland elections are always on sunday and you can observe crowds of people going voting straight from church after sunday mass.
There is reason the Soviets had major heat for religion.
Evangelicalism 🤝 Zionism
Being fronts for Western Imperialism
The prosperity gospel has swept the USA, and all it led to is more corrupt preachers, congregants, politicians, and businesses
Can you call it corruption when it's working as intended?
corrupt
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corrupt verb [ T ] uk /kəˈrʌpt/ us /kəˈrʌpt/ corrupt verb [T] (MAKE BAD)
C1 to make someone or something become dishonest or immoral: The study claimed that violence on television corrupts the minds of children. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases corrupt verb [T] (ON COMPUTER)
to change information on a computer so that it is wrong and cannot be used: Most of the data on the hard drive was corrupted when the power went out. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Related word corruptible (Definition of corrupt from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) corrupt | American Dictionary corrupt adjective us /kəˈrʌpt/ Add to word list dishonest and willing to use your position or power to your own advantage, esp. for money: It’s been called the most politically corrupt city in the nation.
Corrupt also means bad: Your philosophy is corrupt. corruption noun [ U ] us /kəˈrʌp·ʃən/ political corruption
corrupt verb [ T ] us /kəˈrʌpt/
to make someone dishonest and willing to use their position or power for personal advantage, esp. to get money: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Don’t let your friends corrupt you (= have a bad moral influence on you).
If information in a computer is corrupted, it is damaged and can no longer be used. (Definition of corrupt from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) corrupt | Business English corrupt adjective uk /kəˈrʌpt/ us Add to word list using your position or power dishonestly or illegally for your own advantage, especially to make money: a corrupt businessman/official/manager, etc. On the advice of a corrupt financial adviser, the accused understated their income by tens of thousands of dollars. corrupt activities/practices
IT used to describe information on a computer that has been damaged or changed in some way and cannot be used: corrupt data/files
corrupt verb [ T ] uk /kəˈrʌpt/ us
to influence someone into doing bad or dishonest things: It is said that power can corrupt people.
IT to change or damage the information on a computer file so that it cannot be used: Most of the data on the hard drive was corrupted. (Definition of corrupt from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of corrupt corrupt The language rights activists present the victim of linguistic imperialism as a sponge who uncritically absorbs corrupting material. From the Cambridge English Corpus Then some processors (fewer than half of them) fail, and the fault consists in corrupting precisely this bit. From the Cambridge English Corpus If they do, then additional work is required to determine the extent to which they are corrupted. From the Cambridge English Corpus Thus, corrupted norms are marked by low behavioural determinacy, but sufficiently strong moral persuasiveness. From the Cambridge English Corpus He almost certainly doubted that there had ever been any revelation to be corrupted. From the Cambridge English Corpus Projects were corrupted by the financial demands of the crown and the speculative investment of patronage seekers. From the Cambridge English Corpus Requiring that some expressions must be treated specially depending on their types corrupts the interface between the components of the compiler. From the Cambridge English Corpus We have seen that the 'only if ' part from right to left in the satisfaction condition is corrupted. From the Cambridge English Corpus In addition to potential corruption in the process of signal transmission, a message can be corrupted at both the source and destination of the message. From the Cambridge English Corpus They assumed that the chant currently being sung, which clearly did not fit exactly the modal classifications, had been corrupted through time and scribal error. From the Cambridge English Corpus As one might expect it was this which aroused the most anxiety over the theory's potentially corrupting threats to morality and decency. From the Cambridge English Corpus They suggest that this phenomenon can be captured in our framework under the assumption that the learner's observations are corrupted by some perceptual noise. From the Cambridge English Corpus Uniform clothing offset the corrupting influences of vanity and competition so prevalent in modern society and subdued young women's tendencies toward competition. From the Cambridge English Corpus Bootleggers are viewed as corrupting the music because they also have an interest in money. From the Cambridge English Corpus Manualists saw sign language as possibly prior to spoken language, and therefore purer or less corrupted...
religion needs to go
I did a "one minute google search" and all I found was a wiki of a person called Enoch Adeboye and that he “obtained a Master's degree in Hydrodynamics from University of Lagos, and in 1975, he obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Lagos.” He’s now a very popular preacher of the prosperity gospel in Nigeria.
It’s odd that such an intelligent man would become a preacher. But whatever. i am making this comment because it shows that education, by itself, doesn’t mean that a person will be useful for the cause of communism or that universities automatically molds people into principled leftists. University educated students can easily become traitors to their class and turn against the interests of the majority. My comment is a little off topic, IK..
Universities literally exist (and were created) to reproduce the elite and Imperial-essential maintenance drones. Not to produce revolutionaries.
All the leftist stuff is either pacified forms such as Trotskyism or bogus half-butchered dialectical materialism or just incidental.
Remember that not everyone can afford university in say Nigeria for example.
It's entirely possible that he's a swindling charlatan
In evolution, intelligent is adaptation. For an individual of a species, that means it's easier to adapt by changing to accommodate the environment.
Siempre los evangelicos y la ctm. Opio de las masas
What religion does to your brain smh