Don’t get me wrong, I know Anton LaVey is a huge piece of shit regarding his flirtations with fascist attitudes and eugenics. I’ve known a few of them and they tend to have straight up obnoxious opinions on communists despite the fact that we both share a lot of the same criticisms of religion. Then there’s LaVeyanist groups attacking leftist groups as well.
Generally, it seems like there’s a lot of left-leaning ones with a good mass of reactionaries with a anti-theist bend. Is there a reason the anti-communism comes into play here though?
Could also purely be anecdote. Reason I post is because I’m curious on the thoughts you all have.
I could not have said it better myself. Just being against things is not really enough to build up a society of substance and the little they do stand on is nonsense that’ll scatter the masses anyway. It’s cool for a couple of moments when you want to break out of a haunted religious upbringing, but a well-rounded ideology needs to develop later if you actually want to affect change and have an accurate analysis of reality beyond catering to self-indulgence.
Exactly. It’s not enough to be against something, you have to be for something else. It’s why i don’t much like it when some people on the left just describe themselves as vaguely anti-capitalist. It’s good to be against capitalism but what are you actually for? In the case of communists it is clear: we have a well defined vision of the kind of society we want to build. We are for socialism.