Page 23 - Communism in Ambush

Lenin wrote that Communists and the bourgeoisie are the same, as regards
their hostility towards religion. According to Lenin's interpretation, the con-
flict between Communism and capitalism is really just an "internal quarrel,"
and these two materialist ideologies' common enemy is religion.

Marxism teaches us that at a certain stage of its development a society
which is based on commodity production and has commercial intercourse
with civilised capitalist nations must inevitably take the road of capital-
ism.
All these principles of Marxism have been proved and explained in minute
detail in general.

That is why a bourgeois revolution is in the highest degree advantageous
to the proletariat. A bourgeois revolution is absolutely necessary in the in-
terests of the proletariat. 19
In his 1909 article titled "The Attitude of the Workers' Party to
Religion," the Communist leader Lenin describes the role played by the
capitalist bourgeoisie in opposing religion:
. . . . the task of combating religion is historically the task of the revolution-
ary bourgeoisie. In the West, this task was to a large extent performed by
bourgeois democracy, in the epoch of its revolutions against feudalism
and medievalism… Both France and Germany have a tradition of bour-
geois war on religion, which began long before socialism (the
Encyclopaedists and Feuerbach). In Russia, because of the conditions of