Although religion wasn’t allowed as a foundation for governance, converting everyone into atheists was never a goal. Because the USSR was focused was on changing people’s base material conditions, not their religious superstructure. That’s why China doesn’t force people to abandon their faith either.
“It would be bourgeois narrow-mindedness to forget that the yoke of religion that weighs upon mankind is merely a product and reflection of the economic yoke within society. No number of pamphlets and no amount of preaching can enlighten the proletariat, if it is not enlightened by its own struggle against the dark forces of capitalism. Unity in this really revolutionary struggle of the oppressed class for the creation of a paradise on earth is more important to us than unity of proletarian opinion on paradise in heaven.”
Although religion wasn’t allowed as a foundation for governance, converting everyone into atheists was never a goal. Because the USSR was focused was on changing people’s base material conditions, not their religious superstructure. That’s why China doesn’t force people to abandon their faith either.
“It would be bourgeois narrow-mindedness to forget that the yoke of religion that weighs upon mankind is merely a product and reflection of the economic yoke within society. No number of pamphlets and no amount of preaching can enlighten the proletariat, if it is not enlightened by its own struggle against the dark forces of capitalism. Unity in this really revolutionary struggle of the oppressed class for the creation of a paradise on earth is more important to us than unity of proletarian opinion on paradise in heaven.”
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