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In order for Marxism to prevail, Christianity must be destroyed.
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simplistic, Marxism and militarized Socialism are complicated sociopolitical and economic structures firstly, and ideological philosophies second, which means you really should consider the economic, political, and social motivations for Marxists before examining more abstract and shifting patterns like ideology, philosophy, or religion. People become Marxists for many complex and interacting reasons but ideology is often more a
pretext or a guise than a conscious motivation. While it is just easier in the history books to write wars and conflicts off to ideology or religion, bottom-up historians realize that EVERY human action is motivated by the million and one interacting variables of everyday life, of which religion is merely one facet.
What kind of economic and political agency and culture do people have? What are the social structures of their family groups and support systems? Who represent the cultural symbols and themes which transmit the society to the individuals? Where are the all the geographical boundaries, divisions, assumptions, and attachments which may define or give setting to peoples' lives? How do people eat and obtain other crucial natural resources (ie, local production or import? division of labor, etc etc)? These are the kinds of things to examine when analyzing Marxism, from Bolivia to Ethiopia, from Vietnam to Greece. If anything, religion and ideology are more like smelly and distracting red herrings