On Cultural Memetics

Atheism is an ESSENTIAL ELEMENT of communism.   According to Lenon, it is an INSEPARABLE PART OF MARXISM and scientific socialism.


---  Vladimir Lenin similarly wrote regarding atheism and communism: "A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is going on in practice and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could."^[20]

--- Vladimir Lenin was highly critical of religion, saying in his book Religion Atheism is a natural and inseperable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism.^[2]

In About the attitude of the working party toward the religion, he wrote Religion is the opium of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about religion. All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class.^[3]

--- Stalin: "You know, they are fooling us, there is no God...all this talk about God is sheer nonsense"

--- China is a communist country that is also officially atheistic.^[31] In 1999, the publication Christian Century reported that "China has persecuted religious believers by means of "harassment, prolonged detention, and incarceration in prison or ..reform-through-labor' camps and police closure of places of worship."^[25]

--- According to Asian Economic News, in 2004 the atheistic and communist government of China had an internal document which directed the Chinese media to promote atheism, instructed internet media to remove user comments that advocate alternative spiritual views, and called for a ban on publications that disseminate religious material out of step with Marxism or atheism.^[32]


--- It has been estimated that in less than the past 100 years, governments under the banner of communism have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 to 259,432,000 human lives.^{[35][36][37][38][39][40]} Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to communism is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.^[41]

--- Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a fanatical supporter of Marxism and Darwinism. In the Russian Civil War of 1918-20, he used the force of the Red Army to stamp out whoever he decided was an enemy of the Soviet State.  He confiscated food from peasants, brutalized the Ukrainian army of insurgent peasants, and killed its guerrilla leader, N. I. Makhno.  He inflicted torture and violence against Christians, mercilessly trashed churches, and led the Society of the Godless to get rid of religion.  Trotsky was mesmerized by Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. He said: “Darwin stood for me like a mightly doorkeeper at the entrance to the temple of the universe.” He said that Darwin's ideas “intoxicated” him. And he could not understand in the slightest how belief in God could find room in the same head as belief in Darwin's ideas.