The Elitist Atheism of Rightwing Marxists
I just had a heated exchange with some popular twitter "orthodox Marxist" who claimed religious socialists are not maligned by the rest of the left. I've faced so much religious and Islamaphobic insults from Marxists when they begin to lose an argument and this girl was no different. First off, she's a typical twitter Marxist - European, obviously middle class, staunchly Atheist and "scientific". She proceeded to claim Atheists can't be Marxists and Marxism is inherently atheistic & "scientific" but refused to explain why. So I attacked her unsupported, undefined premise by: 1. Debunking the monism of materialism - the defense materialist atheists make that there is nothing but matter in this universe. 2. Explaining how the materialism of Marxism still applies outside of the outdated, debunked monist materialism of Physicalism to the current Pluralistic models of the universe supported by theoretical physics. 3. Proving Marx's own athe