Date: 2006-04-25 01:42 pm (UTC)
It was a poorly worded question... I mean it's pretty tongue in cheek to start with, and as [livejournal.com profile] brownfist mentioned, Marx had a genuine desire for human liberation, so from that perspective, the Church is out. Thinking a bit more about it, I have more in mind actual communist regimes, say, Stalin's for example.

But I should have specified that I'm just fucking the proverbial dog... I was thinking about why authoritarian regimes would not use existing oppressive structures rather than combat them. In the end, I'm down with the opium analysis.

[livejournal.com profile] poetofthefuture did bring up liberation theology, and along that line, I was also thinking a bit about the United Church's social gospel that led to the creation of the CCF and the NDP as progressive examples, but that is kind of besides the point.
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