Secularism in Capitalism
Secularism in any capitalist country or society depends up on the “whims and fancies” of the ruling class (the capitalist class) and its political parties, whether in government/power or in opposition.
This “Whims and fancies” is the outcome of the balance of power between the capitalist class and the working class, farmers, the oppressed people. If the latter is united, their life standard is better, more employment and education/health facilities to them, lesser will be interference by the state or state sponsored violence against them (riots, genocides, jail to political activists, like under UAPA, AFSPA, NSA, etc.) and lesser the rise of extreme-right wing. The crisis in capitalism, even if exist, will not dare to out rightly attack the proletarian class.
If the balance of power is tilted towards the capitalist class, meaning the unity of the working people is weak and broken (The capitalist class keeps trying that in name of religion, nationalism, etc. to plunder them and the national wealth maximum).
It is not merely communalism, but even racism (In US, EU, UK) and other forms of discrimination (like national, casteism, gender), which are on the whims and fancies of the ruling class/parties in capitalism; sometimes more, when people like liberals, social democrats, pseudo intellectuals and Lefts start questioning secularism or democracy, sometimes less, when they feel “happy” but both conditions are interrelated and swing as per the need of capital, crisis in it, which must grow, must profit, must maintain its hegemony!
In socialism, secularism is natural.
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