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Marcus Garvey inspired millions of Black people and gave them pride, which showed how much power ordinary people have when they come together. But his movement had limits that kept it from changing the system that oppressed them. Garvey treated all Black people as if they had the same interests. He did not look at the differences between poor people, workers, and the small group of Black business owners. When you treat everyone as one group, the people with money and status end up guiding the movement, not the people who suffer the most. Real change has to start with the poorest and most exploited, or it will not transform the system. Garvey told people to build businesses and gain wealth as the path to freedom. But you cannot escape oppression by joining the same system that created it. Pride and self-reliance are good, but they cannot replace a strategy for changing how society is organized. Without changing the base of the economy, people stay trapped in the same conditions. His call to “return to Africa” came more from emotion than from a study of the real situation in Africa. At the time, Africa was under colonial rule, and every country had its own struggles and class divisions. You cannot build liberation on a dream alone. You have to understand the facts on the ground. Garvey even tried to work with white segregationists because they both believed in racial separation. This shows the danger of focusing only on race and not on the deeper forces at work. Segregationists wanted to keep Black people oppressed. Working with them only showed how a movement can get confused when it does not study who its real allies and enemies are. Garvey stirred the people, and that matters. But awakening people is only the beginning. To change their lives, a movement needs a plan that deals with the real conditions and fights the forces that keep people poor and powerless. Garvey inspired pride, but he did not give the people a path to transform the world they lived in.

Malcolm X was not a communist. His worldview came from the Nation of Islam, a religious nationalist movement, not a materialist one. Even after embracing orthodox Islam, his analysis stayed rooted in faith, not Marxist theory. Religious anti-imperialism can oppose Western power but often preserves gender norms and moral rules Marxists critique as homophobic or transphobic.

@Tazaryach This repeats a white supremacist divide and conquer script. Blaming Somalis is house negro behavior that shields the system harming all Black people.

@ThePaddedMeowth @HingleMcCr64580 @Lilith_Atheist Patriarchy is the symptom. Christianity is the disease.

Trans women are women. Womanhood is a social construct. It involves adulthood, which legally and culturally changes throughout history. Adulthood being a social construct alone shows that womanhood is not fixed by biology, but one could go further. Womanhood is not determined by any single biological trait. All women do not have breasts, XX chromosomes, ovaries, a uterus or a vagina, which proves that biological variation exists inside the category. Biological sex is real, but patriarchy does not treat bodies according to neutral biology. It takes sexed bodies and assigns them meaning, value and hierarchy based on the needs of the social order. This means womanhood is a social category shaped by material conditions, not by anatomy. This category develops through the historical organization of labor, kinship, property and political power. When private property emerged, control over the fertility, labor and movement of biological females became necessary for inheritance and the consolidation of wealth. This created a system where the category of woman was tied to subordination and economic function. Family structure turned into a political institution that directed women’s labor, regulated reproduction and restricted access to resources. Religion and ideology then naturalized these relations and presented them as biological truths, even though they were created by economic interests and power. As modes of production changed, the meaning of womanhood changed. Industrial labor separated wage work from domestic work and reshaped the expectations placed on women. Later expansions of wage labor changed it again. Biology remained the same, but the social meaning placed on biology shifted each time the economic base shifted. This shows that womanhood is produced by social relations rather than by fixed anatomy. Biological sex matters because patriarchy organizes bodies in different ways, but the category of woman is created by the structure of society, not by the traits of the body. This is why the category of woman is not fixed and why it can include trans women. When a society recognizes a person within the social relations, expectations and power structures that define womanhood, they occupy the social category of woman. The body does not dictate the category. The category reflects the material conditions of the society that created it.

It’s ironic when Christians use Pol Pot as proof that atheists commit atrocities, yet ignore the Christian-majority countries that bombed Cambodia long before he took power. Those bombings dropped millions of tons of explosives on rural farmland and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. Villages, irrigation systems, roads, livestock and rice stores were wiped out. Entire communities were displaced, the rural economy collapsed and famine and desperation spread. The Cambodian state lost credibility because it could not protect its people, and the Khmer Rouge used this chaos to recruit those who had lost homes and families. Pol Pot did not take over a stable country. He inherited a society already shattered by years of foreign attack and economic ruin. The destruction of Cambodia’s agriculture, infrastructure and social stability had already created the conditions for collapse. Blaming atheism while ignoring the role of Western Christian powers leaves out the real chain of events that drove Cambodia into disaster.

Shows you know nothing about communism. Communism has worked in very real ways when it comes to overthrowing white colonialism. Vietnam defeated France and then the United States, ending nearly a century of colonial rule. China broke British, French and Japanese domination. Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau won independence through Marxist-led movements that pushed out Portuguese colonial power. Cuba overthrew a U.S. backed dictatorship and ended direct American control over the island. In South Africa, the Communist Party played a major role in the anti-apartheid struggle that toppled white minority rule.

@HingleMcCr64580 @Lilith_Atheist Source: trust me bro. You couldn’t define communism and its worldview if you tried.

“Nobody is mandated by any belief to do anything.” The Bible mandates actions. Exodus 21 commands slavery. Deuteronomy 22 commands marriage to a rape victim. Leviticus requires killing adulterers and gay people. These are not mere beliefs. They are orders to act, so belief can and does mandate behavior.

When later economic systems, including capitalism, developed, they absorbed and reinforced these older patterns. Women were pushed into low paid jobs, treated as secondary workers and relied on to perform unpaid labor in the home. These practices helped employers lower costs and keep the workforce functioning. The system of male advantage and female disadvantage remained strong because it fit the needs of the larger economic order. Patriarchy survives because it is tied to the concrete conditions of daily life. It is woven into how work is organized, how wealth is controlled and how families function. As long as those conditions remain, patriarchy reproduces itself. To understand it, one must look at how people actually live, not at abstract ideas about what men or women are supposed to be.

When people learned to farm, everything changed. Farming created settled villages, stored grain and herds of animals. For the first time, families could hold more than others. Control over land and livestock became a new source of power. These new facts of life created new relationships. Men took on roles tied to plowing, herding and defending property, while women’s work became more centered on the household and child raising. As stored wealth grew, inheritance became important, and men began to control women’s sexuality and labor in order to pass property through the male line. These changes did not come from ideas alone. They came from the practical realities of farming, ownership and storage. Once surplus existed, control over that surplus shaped social expectations. Rules about gender hardened because they helped protect property and organize work. Over generations, this arrangement became a stable system in which men held most public authority and women’s autonomy was restricted.

Patriarchy does not arise because one sex suddenly decides to dominate the other. It grows out of the basic facts of how people live. These basic facts include the kind of work people do, the tools they use, how food is produced, how families survive and how communities organize daily life. These realities shape what people value, how they behave and how power forms. They are the foundation on which every society stands. In early human groups, people lived by hunting and gathering. No one could store large amounts of food, and no one could survive alone. Everyone depended on the group. Women and men both contributed essential work, and because resources were shared and there was no lasting wealth, no one could use property or inheritance to control others. There was no stable hierarchy because the way of life did not allow it.

@RegularSanStan @Greynxgga69 In the context of state-power and most social hierarchies.

Eternity means the universe did not come into existence at a first moment and will not go out of existence at a last moment. Stars are born and die, planets form and break apart, and even entire cosmic phases may rise and fall, but the matter that makes up the universe continues to exist through these changes. Even theories that describe a future heat death do not say matter becomes nothing. They say the universe reaches a state where usable energy is gone, but matter still exists in a quiet and uniform form. Since nothing in nature ever turns into nothing, and since every change comes from prior material conditions, the universe must always exist in one form or another.

Infinity in this context is not a giant number. It means the universe has no final limit. When scientists study large scale structure, they find galaxies grouped into clusters, then into superclusters, and so on, with no single largest layer. When they study small scales, each level of matter reveals deeper structure. What looked like a solid atom turned out to have electrons and a nucleus, and the nucleus turned out to have protons and neutrons, which turned out to have quarks. Infinity here means that the universe cannot be exhausted by counting or by reaching a final indivisible piece.

The universe cannot be created out of nothing because nothing has no properties, no energy and no ability to cause change. Every event we have ever observed comes from something that already exists. Matter becomes radiation, radiation becomes particles, particles combine into atoms, and atoms break apart again. Energy changes form, but it is never seen appearing out of thin air. Even the quantum vacuum is not nothing. It is a physical state with fields that can fluctuate. Calling it nothing is just a misunderstanding of the word. Since no example in nature shows something coming from literal non-existence, the idea of the whole universe appearing from nothing does not make sense.

@HingleMcCr64580 @Lilith_Atheist Atheism is the lack of belief in the existence of God. Even if it were the belief that no God exists, there’s still no logical connection between not believing in the existence of God and communism. Someone can be an atheist and be a boot-licking capitalist.

Proof? Even if he said he was an atheist, that does not mean atheism told him to act the way he did. Atheism is not a political program and it does not mandate any action. You still have not shown a logical link between atheism and his invasion of Ukraine, because there is none. You are stereotyping atheists. There is also nothing wrong with living for earthly means. Life, family and society are all on earth, so living for them is not immoral. I would rather live for what can be shown to exist than for a supernatural claim that has never been demonstrated and probably does not exist, since most supernatural claims conflict with scientific evidence.

Human nature starts with biology because we are animals with bodies and brains shaped by evolution. But human biology is social at its core. A human baby cannot survive alone. We are born early, weak and completely dependent on others. This basic fact forces humans to live in groups. It is part of what our bodies require for survival. Our brains also grow through social contact. Babies who are talked to, held and interacted with develop stronger thinking and emotional skills. Babies who are isolated or ignored show serious delays. The brain is built to learn from other people. That means social life is not optional. It is a biological need. Our bodies support this need in many ways. We have speech organs designed for language. Our stress levels drop when we are around trusted people. Hormones increase bonding, trust and cooperation. These reactions come from our biology, not from culture alone. They exist because humans survived better when they worked together and supported each other. Once humans live in groups, they must also figure out how to get food, how to share it and how to make decisions. These basic tasks are the start of economics and politics. They are not separate from human nature. They grow out of the simple fact that humans depend on each other to live. Human nature begins in the body, but the body itself pushes us into social life. Our biology makes us social, and our social life creates the economic and political systems that shape how we live.

@lamsLore3210 @Lilith_Atheist Billions? That’s a new number. Source: trust me bro.