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 Explaining how the materialism of Marxism still applies outside of the outdated, debunked monist materialism of Physicalism to the current Pluralistic models of the universe supported by theoretical physics.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 atheism was never widely accepted by early Marxists besides the state atheism of Leninism, Stalinism & Maoism. I accept Marxism is inherently anti-clerical because the working class has been oppressed by religious ruling classes and the religion of the ruling classes. You can believe in God or practice a religion without a clergy using religion as "the opium of the masses". https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1903/01/01.htm 
4. I explained that Marxism is not a dogmatic adherence to all of Marx's personal beliefs about communism or revolution. The man was a profound racist who knew nothing about science, philosophy, government or military leadership besides the dialectical nature of materialism scientifically supports an inevitability of socialist revolution by the proletariat against the capitalism of the bourgeoisie. This alone defines Marxism.

Karl Marx could not possibly understand, as an atheist who only knew of the dueling monism of German idealism and materialism, that Hegelian dialectic also applied to the universal substances of mind & matter. The two can't exist independently because they're composing a 3rd substance - energy or "spirit". 

Marx's historical materialism still applies within the broader realities of Dualism, Pluralism or non-physicalist Monism. Because materialism is not inherently monistic. Thus, Marxism is not inherently monistically materialist i.e. atheist. Because Marxism is not an all encompassing model for life & the universe (although childish Orthodox Marxists & Tankies want it to be). This rigid, underdeveloped dogmatism is as illogical and anti-science as any religious idealism. And not all religious belief is idealistic, while many atheists are idealists. 

Its incredibly arrogant and ignorant to assume religious or spiritual belief is anti-science. Marxists like this girl believe the working class masses to be too stupid to ever grasp Marxism so its up to this middle-class vanguardism to dictate Marxism to the people and remake the state post-revolution in their own image "for Marx".  They're the true Marxists and the God-fearing masses are just guns and workers to be led because communism is an intellectual's field. Yeah, right. Marx himself wasn't a genius by today's standards. 

Communism is unappealing to the working class largely because of the state atheism of rightwing Marxists. Tons of anti-communist propaganda portrays Marxists as anti-God and anti-religion. And most are, unfortunately. But it comes from their own limited application of Marxism. Marxism is not just the beliefs of Karl Marx but a broader school of thought with diverse Marxist thinkers, building up Marx's beliefs and applying them to today's material realities. Marx's material reality was less enlightened and his observations were less informed. For Marxists today to retain Marx's outdated beliefs as Marxism and refuse to apply new material realities to Marxism; that is Idealism.

This idea that "science = atheist-materialism" is so asinine and rightwing authoritarian. Science is not based on physical evidence or proof. Science deduces the best possible theory by debunking all other theories. Atheists and materialists just deny all conflicting theories to their hypothesis to appear right.