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First I cite what I, kendemyer, wrote above which you never addressed:
You are correct, I didn't see it. But you are clearly wholly unfamiliar with the Russian revolution which rather cripples your case.
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You are not showing that the reason why the Communist soldiers killed themselves was because of atheism. It could have been nationalism or a belief that capitalism was inherently evil.
Seeing as communism is a materialist philosophy, "evil" is not in its lexicon. It uses terms like exploitative, for example, to indicate what they think is wrong, rather than hang an emotive sign on it.
The RR was also not a national liberation struggle, because the country was not under foreign or colonial occupation. Furthermore, the Bolsheviks were heavily into doing things themselves rather than delegating it to others: even the work of the CHEKA was necessarily rotated through all party members.
So, there is not basis to attributiong to them a position that capitalism is "evil", nor for national liberation. Andnit cannot be claimed that the7y wer e"just" using communist soldiers if the reasons those communists had taken up arms was precisely their materialist analysis of the situation.
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I realize that you did make an effort to produce evidence and I appreciate this but I do not think it is of high or moderate degree of quality.
I suggest you practice what you preach - your whole argument about communists in this regard displays a huge degree of assumption, and no research. Liebknecht and Luxembourg were executed by the Nazis, and were not soldiers. Che gave up a western lifestyle to die in a muddy field.
It is you who made the strong assertion that there are NO materialist marytyrs.
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