Don’t get me wrong, I know Anton LaVey is a huge piece of shit regarding his flirtations with fascist attitudes and eugenics. I’ve known a few of them and they tend to have straight up obnoxious opinions on communists despite the fact that we both share a lot of the same criticisms of religion. Then there’s LaVeyanist groups attacking leftist groups as well.
Generally, it seems like there’s a lot of left-leaning ones with a good mass of reactionaries with a anti-theist bend. Is there a reason the anti-communism comes into play here though?
Could also purely be anecdote. Reason I post is because I’m curious on the thoughts you all have.
Exactly. It’s not enough to be against something, you have to be for something else. It’s why i don’t much like it when some people on the left just describe themselves as vaguely anti-capitalist. It’s good to be against capitalism but what are you actually for? In the case of communists it is clear: we have a well defined vision of the kind of society we want to build. We are for socialism.