DİN MESELESİ- (tartışma) "The commonplace notion that the Bolsheviks or Marxism in general has been unsuccessful because they offend the religious sensibilities of their “target demographic,” the proletariat, is simply untrue and has no basis in historical reality. Quite the contrary: the masses largely followed the Marxists’ lead in smashing and seizing religious property, looking to eradicate religion both directly (by direct expropriation) and indirectly (by removing the antagonistic social conditions that give rise to religion in the first place). They aimed to render it completely obsolete by obliterating the conditions that create it." rosswolfe.wordpress/2013/03/01/soviet-antireligious-propaganda/ "Conclusion-( An unholy alliance against the common enemy: a history of communists’ relations with Muslims by Ben Fowkes and Bülent Gökay) The political history of Marxists and Muslims has shown that cooperation between these two forces of opposition occurred many times during the 20th century. Essentially it was a common enemy that fomented provisional collaboration between the two. The relationship between Communism and Islam was, however, not entirely unproblematic. While there was much, both in ideology and situation, that brought Muslims and Communists closer together, there were also many points of disagreement that divided them. The communist worldview was opposed to religion of any kind, including Islam. This fundamental ideological division did not inevitably find expression in practical politics, and there were often tactical reasons for downplaying it. Yet it remained there, beneath the surface. There were other points of friction too, particularly in the case of traditional Islam, which was tied to a local status quo, which the communists wanted to overturn, however much both sides might agree to oppose Western imperialism. Where communists advocated land reform, for instance, this could well involve an attack on charitable religious foundations (as in Indonesia in 1964 for example). Campaigns for the emancipation of women would include agitation against the veil, and this was bound to bring fierce resistance from traditionally minded Muslims (as in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s). In this context, the hostility of Islamism to Marxist movements, and the use of Islamic groups to fight Soviet communism and the wider left during the Cold war, is worthy of some serious analysis. So there were at least two tendencies, towards cooperation and towards hostility. Which one prevailed depended on the epoch and also the social and political conditions of the region. In this special issue we shall examine the varied responses of communists to Islam. Moreover, since it takes two to make an alliance, we shall also examine the evolving attitudes of political Islam towards communism." globalfaultlines.org/2012/07/27/an-unholy-alliance-against-the-common-enemy-a-history-of-communists-relations-with-muslims-by-ben-fowkes-and-bulent-gokay/
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