r/DankLeft

The question is especially pressing in societies where religion remains a central element of social, political, and private life.

Half-serious and admittedly fringe meme, but the meme points at something I actually wrestle with: how should we approach religion? I'm internally divided on this. One side of me is hostile, even belligerent. The other side is more understanding, even sympathetic. So how should the we actually approach it?

The meme picks two historical poles:

- On one side, Siad Barre's Somalia: the government framed "scientific socialism" as continuous with Islam, presenting collective ownership and redistribution as an extension of the religion's egalitarian and communal kernel. It folded the clergy into the state, leaned on religious vocabulary to legitimize reform, and tried to co-opt rather than abolish.

- On the other side, the Khalq in Afghanistan: secularization imposed top-down and at speed: land reform, mass female literacy, and marriage law rewritten by decree. Religion was treated less as something to negotiate with than as an obstacle to be overridden.

What do you think?

The French are built different

quite fond of the makhnovshchina

I guess they should dig into the nearest urinal since thing in there is called a urinal cake

If only they’d read his damn book

Hardly the only thing America did that inspired the Nazis. There’s also manifest destiny, concentration camps for the indigenous, the genocide of the indigenous, and more

Then libs try to portray the dissolution as if it was this democratic choice when that really couldn’t be further from the truth

She used an alias to do it too

Blessed Yeonmi Park

A bit ago I saw on tv a Fox News commentator say the dems were becoming the Bolsheviks and I actually burst out laughing

At least now we know there's SOMETHING they'd fight for 🤷🏻‍♂️

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hitches Bentley to the bandwagon

new reaction image just dropped lol [OC]

Copaganda vs. Real-Life

Woaw such a varied choice

The decline of American hegemony in real time

How should we approach the religious question?

All as punishment for 1) Freeing themselves from being a colony of the USA 2) Being an example of an alternative to neoliberalism

Can’t wait for him to wake up from his nap

Was kinda funny to see the look on his face ngl