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Religion and other opiums

 Dear Comrades,  Coming from extremely conservative and poor backgrounds of India has an advantage of seeing the whole class structure naked in front of you. The relationship of humans and religion has been one of mutual interdependence. It seems really scarce to our liberal friends today how can we be able to survive without religion. It is for this reason I think it is highly needed that we, communists should clarify our stance on religion and similarly related things. Since Marx, Religion and Communism had tensions so great that many people died because of these tensions. Anything like religion, which serves a dual purpose in a class wise stratified society, viz. Service to the bourgeoisie by blinding the proletariat of it's class consciousness and service to the proletariat by giving them reasons for their suffering. But, this has changed since the advent of newer and updated economic systems. I believe, Religion today not only consoles the proletariat but also the bourgeo...

On Class Consciousness

 Dear Comrades, The word "Class" has as hidden meanings as it has open meanings. A person who is not class conscious is often reminded his class via phrases like "Apni Auqaat mein raho" or "Auqaat bhool gaya madharchod". It is very interesting to think about how the upper-class elite of this country thinks and is so alike and so much hypocritical. Do not get me wrong. The middle class and the lower class have their contradictions as well. But nothing matches in front of the upper-class hypocrisy. One that has material resources will never like that those who do not possess it remind him that he has those resources. The upper class will always try to give a count on how his life has been miserable as well. But one thing we should keep in mind. What we talk about in our agenda of communist ideology is not that the one who has resources is good to go and those who do not are at loss. We are not wishing to create a society where there happens a role reversal b...