Lenin’s Critical Thought Of Religion And Its Contemporary Value

Lenin’s religious criticism has a very important position in the history of Marxism.First,Lenin not only put the Marxist view of religion into reality in one country for the first time,but also eased or resolved the tension between religion(theory)and actual politics and social needs(practice).Second,due to the complexity and particularity of Russian history and geography,Lenin’s religious criticism is more dialectical.Third,Lenin revealed to us the potential relationship between capitalism and religion,which provided us with a new perspective on the adjustments and changes,offensive and defensive,expansion and contraction of capitalism.Whether in terms of maintaining and propagating Marxism,or in terms of dealing with complex religious issues in today’s society,it is very necessary to study Lenin’s religious critical thoughts.Especially in modern society,under the conditions that revolution is difficult to break out,religious criticism is actually the continuation,transformation or inevitable choice of capitalist political criticism,economic criticism,and historical criticism.Lenin creatively understands the connection between religion and capitalism,and creatively understands Marx’s "fetishism".His religious criticism itself contains the connotation of capitalist criticism.Socialism,capitalism,ideology,and religion cannot be examined separately.Therefore,the main logical clue of this article is that "religious criticism is the Archimedes fulcrum of capitalist criticism".The first chapter introduces the existing research on Lenin’s religious thoughts and points out that the main purpose of this article is to highlight the research on Lenin’s religious critical thoughts,not to talk about religious thoughts or religious views in general.The second chapter introduces in detail the realistic needs,theoretical origins and theoretical turn of Lenin’s critical thoughts on religion.Only by grasping the dimension of "realistic needs" can we understand the content of the subsequent arrangements,especially in the "theoretical turn".Lenin changed his thoughts and theoretical tracks from macromaterialism to micro-materialist dialectics.It is precisely with this transformation that Lenin’s criticism of religion can be targeted and relaxed.In addition,this article opposes tailoring reality and history with theory.Therefore,the writing sequence of this chapter first reviews the history and tasks faced by Lenin’s religious criticism at that time.The third chapter is the core argument of this article.These arguments include the intrinsic relationship between religion and capitalism,the essential difference between socialism and religion,and the path of religious criticism in the imperialist era.Completed a highly unified analysis in terms of world outlook and methodology.Lenin inherited and developed the Marxist view of religion,and established that "religion and capitalism have different dimensions,such as the mechanism of capitalism","internal regulations","spiritual motivation for development",and "logical basis for expansion".The core proposition of natural internal relations;he initially constructed the “intrinsic logic of religious criticism” from different levels such as “socialist principles and proletarian world outlook”,“proletarian political parties”,and “the masses of the people”;he believed that the elimination of religion is a long-term.The arduous task and process,but timely criticism of it is very conducive to countering capitalism,consolidating socialism and defending Marxism.The fourth chapter introduces the contemporary value of Lenin’s critical thinking on religion,including Lenin’s adherence to and development of Marxist religious ideology in Lenin’s time,as well as the significance of this thought for the current China’s dismantling of popular false religious critical concepts and for the future.The enlightenment of the critical dimension of capitalism proposes that no matter how the conditions of the times change,one cannot give up the critical attitude towards religion,and the focus is on the question of how to criticize.This is especially involved in the wrong views and opinions of Adrian Zenz,the socalled "expert on Chinese ethnic and religious issues".Criticism of the practice in order to expose the despicable attempts of anti-China forces to subvert the socialist regime and undermine social stability through ethnic and religious issues;intervene in the criticism of "socialism is a religion" and "build socialism with capitalism" to clarify the question of the attitude of the big right and wrong of the religion and capital.Through the study of Lenin’s critical thinking on religion,we have once again clarified a problem,that is,dialectics confirms a fact that the way out of a certain thing lies in its inherent contradiction and basis.Capitalism has shaped the basic appearance of modern society,which means that any country or society that draws on the principles of capital can hardly escape the general problems faced by capitalism itself,no matter how cautious it is to draw on and use it.Inverting this logic,one can come to a conclusion: Lenin’s religious criticism with a special Russian meaning has gained logical coercion(universal)from the beginning.This logical coercion is an important prerequisite for understanding the ethnic and religious issues of a modern country.Especially for a multi-ethnic country like China,the formulation and implementation of ethnic and religious policies cannot deviate from the general conditions of modernization.It is precisely because of the proper resolution of such problems that China can move forward steadily.