It is (and I was trying to express it as a tangent to my talking about Theravada, not as a subset). I must give it credit compared to more popular Mahayana sects though for not being oriented around celestial empires and contempt for the suffering, but rather focusing on the mundane and, if not totally benevolent, at least therapeutic. In those regards, I find it much more grounded and pro-social than many religions and hence better-suited to communism.
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Famously real, Putin's murder gulags
Just make a new account.
"Not everyone you disagree with is a fascist, also you are a fascist"
Catholicism is genuinely the least-compatible religious formation with communism, and one need only look at their having their own state with a theocratic master of policy and a vast amount of wealth to understand why. If you want to imagine a non-papal Catholicism, knock yourself out, but what exists now is in opposition to communist organization.
In 1924, Haji Omar Said Tjokroaminoto, the leader of Sarekat Islam, then the biggest political party in Indonesia, published a monograph (113 pages) on Islam and socialism.
Is there any chance you can point me to an English translation of this text? I seem to be getting texts of the same title by other authors
and the preachers behind so many peasant riots in England back in the day.
Could you elaborate on this subject?
To at least give a slightly novel answer relative to the usual ones: Cheondoism was famously defended by Kim Il-Sung as being a "progressive" religion that should not disqualify someone from Party membership because it's fundamentally oriented around the liberation of the masses.
Also, I'm going to be That Guy and say that Theravada Buddhism is relatively compatible, as it was almost-inconceivably progressive for its time and still compares positively to many religions, including the more popular sects. It has its own issues, but in general I think the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the one who said there is no soul and risked his life to save a goat, is someone worth emulating from a communist perspective. I also think he bears little resemblance, for hopefully obvious reasons, to the Buddhas who have celestial empires and believe that those who suffer should be left to suffer because of Karma.
Also shout-out to Chan/Zen Buddhism with the major caveat that it has probably the worst co-opting by westerners into reactionary bullshit.
As an aside, the General Discussion thread currently has as its thumbnail a cartoon of a shotgun being leveled at Ayn Rand's head with "Class Consciousness" written on it. Come on, I won't argue against that the site is genuinely full of libs, but that their intentions are communist could not be more ham-fisted.
That's totally the name of some punk band
If lemmitors could be persuaded to read a book, this post wouldn't exist
Now ask this fucker what he thinks of prisons in the DPRK