I always believed religion was incompatible with a society rooted in addressing material reality, although I know we have have religious users and wanted to hear people’s takes.
Religions are not static, they also are subject to dialectical and historical materialism. The rooting out of feudalistic and capitalistic institutional structures from the religious world, and the solving of more material problems by the secular world under socialism, will change people’s relationship to religion, which in turn will change religion further.
I don’t see any essential reason communists and religious entities have to step on each other’s toes, but in the present a lot of incumbent reactionary power rides on existing religious institutions and formats. We can look to the histories of the socialist experiments to see examples both of the initial crushing of the reactionary religious elements, and later of more nuanced handling so that religious elements that pose little or no threat to the proletarian state are let be.
Communists have the soundest and best demonstrated methods of resolving class struggle that I know of, and I also think the changed relationship to work and leisure under socialism goes a long way to healing the lingering wounds of class society. I really don’t know if a niche for spirituality will be left open by a communist society, or if the questions that become religious ones will be addressed satisfactorily before they can grow into aches.
For my part in the present, I use spiritual practice because my class enemies are still supplying me with plentiful wounds and aches, and my local communists are far from big or totalizing enough to have subsumed matters presently understood as spiritual. I’m working with the tools I’ve got.
Lots of religions have principles that align with a love for mankind and communal sharing of resources.
How many of them have the understanding of material conditions needed to organize people into a force capable of meaningfully fighting against capitalism?
Trotskyism
I feel like the religions with high levels of non-theism are compatible. Quakers, Unitarian-Universalist, etc.
I’m inclined to agree with this take and, although I can’t speak for the tech-using Mennonites and their level of non-theism, I can say that they are very often at the forefront of social justice movements and also in Ukraine during the civil war, a proportion of the Mennonite community there took up arms and joined the Bolsheviks which speaks to their compatibility with communism (although these were Mennonites as defined by an ethno-religious group and not necessarily strictly devout as per the Mennonite faith - details are extremely scanty, unfortunately, and you’d probably need to speak to an American Mennonite historian to find out if there’s any more information about the Bolshevik Mennonites) so I would find it convincing if someone threw the progressive Mennonites into this group although personally it wouldn’t be my first answer.
Most actually believing modern Mennonites are still fundamentally theists, but in my country almost everyone on the young side of millenial and younger is no longer an actual believer nor a churchgoer. Most of them have a sort of cultural attachment to the identity though and don’t really have a better one to replace it with, and I’ve found it still informs their (usually) progressive or outright leftist politics.
Posadism
No I will not elaborate
