Russia, Ethiopia: mostly orthodox

Cuba, Angola, Congo-Brazzaville: mostly Catholic

Burkina Faso: mostly Muslim

Asian ones: too obvious to discuss

I have an inkling of a theory why

  • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I hope you’re not suggesting that Catholicism has any particular level of compatibility with communism, since the Catholic Church has been an explicitly anticommunist entity for some time now and we can see e.g. in Cuba that Catholicism gets in the way of social reform, which has over and over been accomplished in spite of and by overcoming Catholic prejudices rather than with the support of Catholic teachings.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      8 days ago

      Protestants are way more conservative and reactionary than Catholics in Latin America thanks to US influence. All the small protestants churches that existed before were repressed by the US backed military dictatorships because they were seen as too liberal (which radicalized them to be more left-wing and united with their left-wing catholic and jewish counterparts during the 1970s).

      Usually Catholics are seen as more liberal because the majority of the population are Catholics or have a religion that has strong ties with Catholicism (be Espiritismo or some Native/Afro-Latino Religion). Meanwhile Protestants megachurches promote shit like Zionism, Anti-Communism and Anti-LGBTQ+ stuff. There are small groups inside these Protestants Churches that actually support Left-Wing policies (such as being critical of Israel, supporting LGBTQ+ rights, Native Rights, etc…) and Left-Wing candidates (which you can see in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela) but they keep the Protestant rhetoric.

      • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        8 days ago

        The vast majority of Protestant practices are disgusting, I’m not taking their side in some sectarian fight. I’m saying that Catholicism is also ultimately a conservative-to-reactionary social formation that has impeded communism, and victories for a genuinely socialist left among Catholic populations has generally been in spite of rather than because of Catholicism (as I would say for Protestantism).