What is the guy on about?
MatBC
Its the collection selected works of Mao, tome 1, I don't remember the section, but what he said was something like, people believed that where your ancestors were buried determined the luck of a person, and that was used to legitimize the local oppressive leadership rule. Then when they overthrew them Mao said something what happened did their ancestors changed graves? Did the gods changed their mind, no it is you that make your own destiny.
It was something clashing a bit with the uses of oppression of the religion but not mocking or ridicularized for being religious, and there is other one saying that is not our job to take religion out of people, that movement comes from the people if they see they do not need that belief anymore or if they come to see that they are being oppressed by religion, at any rate there is no rejection of religious people and it is quite clearly implied that a considerable number of the revolutionary force will be religious. So I will say there is a direction away from relegion on Marxism, there is no denying that, but from that should follow the rejection of a religious person, if your beliefs do not clash with revolution, and you do not preach during the actions of your organization, you can be at peace and keep your beliefs for as long as you see fit, your actions and your dedication for revolution is what matters
The evidence points intensely in the direction that the rope was not tied, the other clients there in the queue were saying that to the guys setting up(what I believe was caught on video), and they shortly thereafter made a run for it having to be found by the police. So I think the allegation is quite solid
3060 is a hell of a card still today
Those people that claim you cannot be religious and communist are missing the point and if you think about it reasonably kinda dooming the revolution in the global south, which is overwhelmingly religious, if you read the selected works of Mao in his speeches he would mobilize the religious beliefs of people, in a questioning manner but not as to attack the people but to challenge some parts of it, but that in itself shows that the people following Mao were religios at least part of them, and that was not a problem in itself, the exploitation that organized religion enacts on people is, so if your faith helps you go through life, and if you have your heart and mind in the idea of changing the world to one where there is si much less senseless suffering of people, my friend any Communist organization worth their salt would be lucky to have you, be a friend of the people and you'll be a good Communist. Just some last points that i think are somewhat obvious for you but I would avoid using religious arguments into the agitation and propaganda campaigns if you end up on such tasks of an organization, even when talking to people that share your faith, once it might give the idea that the organization has religous bases or encourages religiosity, which I don't think is usually the case, even if an organization has no problem with members being religious(which I think is the correct position) it wont be something reccomended
I'd point out the accessibility of food in particular, from under the non constraints, and add from another side, beating the Nazis in the great patriotic war aka WWII
My understanding, is that the guy's heart is in.the right place, but he is been a victim of the rifts between different oppressions, and in his case it gets worse, because once he do not see the point of the flotilla(that while being a mistaken point of view hardly makes him a person of ill intent) he only feels the opportunistic back lash given against unions as a consequence, ans thus he believes that Small's actions were mistaken. And it might be the case, not by the reasons stated(celebrity chasing and such) but by the forseable consequence in the unions indeed, could be the case that supporting the flotilla inderectly or some other way was better, there is a discussion to be had here, of how much the material reactions his involvement could be anticipated and how much care should have been given to them. I think posts like this teach a lot, and dismissing the thing outright because of some bad takes (and some were quire bad indeed) can deprive us of some crucial context, of how our struggle ia perceived, and where more attention is needed. The guy felt real material reprehension and that shapes opinion, that's the point of the reprehension
Sorry I think I lack some context, what is a salt?
Yeah Brazil is ruled by a guy that cares about the people but does not dare to stand strong against the bankers and the big farms, so it did a lot of questionable choices in order to appease them, not what I'd call a bad guy but someone not willing to fight, it's not out of cowardice either the guy faced jail when people plotted against him, he just avoids conflict and that leads to that meme of meeting in the middle with the right
I like the juche symbol as well, very nice
So they are claming that such caste system is being spread overseas from China