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==Atheism and [[Communism]] ==

==Atheism and [[Communism]] ==

[[Image:Khvhkgfiy.jpg|left|thumbnail|130px|[[Vladimir Lenin]]]]

[[Image:Khvhkgfiy.jpg|left|thumbnail|130px|[[Vladimir Lenin]]]]

[[Karl Marx]] said "[Religion] is the opium of the people," <ref>http://www3.baylor.edu/~Scott_Moore/texts/Marx_Opium.html</ref>  and also wrote: "Communism begins from the outset (Owen) with atheism; but atheism is at first far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction." <ref>http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm</ref>  

[[Karl Marx]] said "[Religion] is the opium of the people," <ref>http://www3.baylor.edu/~Scott_Moore/texts/Marx_Opium.html</ref>  and also wrote: "Communism begins from the outset (Owen) with atheism; but atheism is at first far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction." <ref>http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm</ref>  

[[Vladimir Lenin]] similarly wrote: "A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is going on in practice and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could."<ref>http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm</ref>

[[Vladimir Lenin]] similarly wrote: "A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is going on in practice and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could."<ref>http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm</ref>

 

The [[theory of evolution]] played a prominent role in regards to atheistic communism.<ref>http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3054/</ref><ref>http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=276</ref> Communists, in particular [[Stalinism]],  favored a version of [[Lamarckism]] called [[Lysenkoism]] developed by Trofim Denisovich Lysenko.<ref>http://www.bookrags.com/research/lysenkoism-wog/</ref>. Lsenko was made member of the Supreme Soviet and head of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.<ref>http://www.bartelby.com/65/ly/Lysenko.html</ref>  Later Lysenko became president of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences.</ref>  Many geneticists were imprisoned and executed for their ''bourgeois science'', and  agricultural policies based on Lysenkoism that were adopted under Stalin and Mao caused famines and the death of millions<ref>http://www.bookrags.com/research/lysenkoism-wog/</ref>.

The [[theory of evolution]] played a prominent role in regards to atheistic communism.<ref>http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3054/</ref><ref>http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=276</ref> Communists, in particular [[Stalinism]],  favored a version of [[Lamarckism]] called [[Lysenkoism]] developed by Trofim Denisovich Lysenko.<ref>http://www.bookrags.com/research/lysenkoism-wog/</ref>. Lsenko was made member of the Supreme Soviet and head of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.<ref>http://www.bartelby.com/65/ly/Lysenko.html</ref>  Later Lysenko became president of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences.</ref>  Many geneticists were imprisoned and executed for their ''bourgeois science'', and  agricultural policies based on Lysenkoism that were adopted under Stalin and Mao caused famines and the death of millions<ref>http://www.bookrags.com/research/lysenkoism-wog/</ref>.