Despite Marx’s dialectical materialism and all that about religion being the opiate of the people, the Communist Party USA has started an initiative to recruit people of faith.
The Communist Party USA has created a new Religion Commission to reach out to “welcome people of faith into the party.”
Wait. Wasn’t it Marx who said this? “Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.” And wasn’t it Lenin who said this? “Religion is the opium of the people.” Isn’t communism by definition anti-religion?
This isn’t your great-grandfather’s Communist Party, apparently. “Some of the greatest leaders in our history have been men and women of faith, and our party has been proud to work with them,” Tim Yeager, Religion Commission chairman, Chicago trade unionist and Episcopalian, said in a statement.
As Yeager notes, the party’s constitution states that membership is open to “any person living in the United States, 18 years of age or over, regardless of race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or religious belief.”
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