Cults solve three issues for the bourgeoisie in the USA, SK, and Japan:
It perfectly internalize the revolutionary energy and/or channels it away into the cults organization.
It gives a sense of community in places that have been devastated by hyper individualistic ideologies.
It can deliver powerful anti communist propaganda and capitalist apologia disguised by the “word of god”. (This is what I have seen in Latin american evangelicals that receive preachers from the USA). In other words, the “Prosperity theology”
That’s why cults prey on the needy and the helpless within the working class. It is an effective way to disorganize the working class with messages such as: “pray to god so you can have prosperity” or “Poverty is a curse of god and it means that you are lacking x y or z characteristics to be a perfect follower of the cult”
Some churches even sponsor anti communist terrorists like the Doral Jesus Worship Center in Miami Dade.
“At the time of his arrest, Alazo’s regular association with the Doral Jesus Worship Center in Miami Dade was known, in which people with recognized conduct in favor of aggression, hostility, violence and extremism against Cuba gathered”, the Cuban Foreign Ministry added in its statement.
Closest I could maybe come up with was some of the more hippie oriented ones back in the day that the CIA ended up infiltrating and flushing out. Not explicitly communist but anti-war anti-imperialist pothead leftism at best.
Cults solve three issues for the bourgeoisie in the USA, SK, and Japan:
That’s why cults prey on the needy and the helpless within the working class. It is an effective way to disorganize the working class with messages such as: “pray to god so you can have prosperity” or “Poverty is a curse of god and it means that you are lacking x y or z characteristics to be a perfect follower of the cult”
This is very true. I have never seen any cult that isn’t anti-communist, be it Falun Gong, Unification Church, or others.
Some churches even sponsor anti communist terrorists like the Doral Jesus Worship Center in Miami Dade.
Source -> https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/MINREX-Accuses-US-Of-Protecting-Anticuban-Terrorists-20240509-0020.html
Closest I could maybe come up with was some of the more hippie oriented ones back in the day that the CIA ended up infiltrating and flushing out. Not explicitly communist but anti-war anti-imperialist pothead leftism at best.