Amir Vafa´s Blog

The difference between the struggle in Communist ideology and Islam

We have heard a lot about sacrifices in revolutionary movements and group with both Marxism ideology and Islamic belief.

There have also been a lot of arguments about which one of these ideologies are the most sacrificing one in the struggle.

Well in my opinion both sides have shown great sacrifice in the their fight but it is also essential to point out that many of them, or most of them have used their ideology to take advantage of their power and use it to suppress the people before and after coming into the power.

At the socialist side we have seen the Soviet union with Stalin taking advantage and repressing the ones who where against him as well as North Korea calling itself communist ant still it is repressing the people and keeping them in poverty and the leader himself is living like a king, one of the biggest importer of luxury alcoholic drinks from the US, drinking breast milk from nursing women…..

I thought the idea of socialism was no personal profit, sharing between people and equality none exploiting and so on, in this matter North Korean has gone 180 degrees against that idea

At the Islamic part I we can point out even more ones, the good example is Iran who is using the religion completely for its own profit and to suppress the people.

But let’s go back to the amount of sacrifice and quality of struggle between the honest and fine groups who fight for freedom, which ideology brings up the highest drive for fighters and which one is able to sacrifice more?

The socialist groups have “no god or religion” so their inspiration cannot come from “ fighting in the way of god” and thinking about the holy award waiting for them in heaven, so does that make them a less better fighter and less sacrificing than the Islamic groups?

According to me no, because thinking about the religious way and the holy gift that is promised by Islam and that you are promised a unique place at a higher level in heaven as a martyr or as it says “ there will be rivers of milk and honey” or “ you will be given 72 virgins” might actually inspire people to go and blow themselves up in suicide attacks, like one of the suicide bombers in Israel that failed to detonate his bomb and when asked what inspired him he answered “ I was promised 72 virgins”.

Thinking about it you see that the real goal (fighting for freedom) is wiped away and the goal becomes individual, they want to reach their own happy ending.

We can also see a high sacrificing will in the real and honest socialist movements without even thinking about what the after life reward will be because they simply don’t believe in the afterlife, so for them sacrificing their life’s must be a pure belief in their struggle for the cause.

Once again it’s good to bring up the example Ché Guevara made the highest sacrifice in his struggles; he was a pure socialist with a strong belief in Marxism.

Yet no one have ever come close to the quantity of his sacrifice, with the harshest conditions in the jungles, a chasing asthma, underfed…. he continued his struggle to the death.

Where did he get his motivation from? Did he ever think of the heavenly reward?

No, because he was fighting for the cause and for the people and not for his own reward or profit. He also openly criticized the Soviet Union after visiting them for their lack of Socialist values when he saw that they had government officials had better living standards that the ordinary people in their country, he was simply against the exploitation in any kind and believed in the Marxism and he didn’t exploit the term for his own good .