01-30-2014, 11:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-31-2014, 12:00 AM by FireIceTalon.)
(01-23-2014, 12:07 AM)kandrathe Wrote: Which is why Christianity doesn't advocate any form of government, other than every person being subservient to the will of God. Monarchy, democracy, communism, theocracy, benevolent dictatorships would all fit.
This may or may not be true, but either way I'm pretty sure Christianity and a communist society would be entirely incompatible, since the former is inherently authoritarian while the latter is the material expression of the interests of the working class. Religion has too many reactionary tenets that are used to oppress, marginalize or otherwise discriminate against certain groups of people - a set of social relationships that are exclusive and unique to class based societies (in particular capitalism). Furthermore, religion is also there to provide reassurance and make a hopeless world seem livable (albeit ineffectively).
Edit - thinking about it further, religion in itself does not advocate any form of government since religion is effectively a lifestyle. But this doesn't take human agency into account, which always must be considered, whether it is through the state (resulting in a theocracy), or the power of religious institutions (such as the Catholic Church). In essence I don't see Christianity or any religion for that matter being compatible (and certainly not necessary) with the social relations that constitute a communist society. It's why the whole idea of "Christian Communism" is silly to me - Christianity is a lifestyle while communism is not.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)