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@drgs Communism as religion:
"This premise is unquestionable. You cannot refute it, or you stop being Communist. If you employ all your scientific Communist methods, and then come to a conclusion that points away from Communism, your science is worthless. You must retrace your steps and find the point where you have deviated from the only correct path.
This is exactly how theology works, and science doesn’t.
Your faith in Communism must be all-encompassing. If not, you’re tapped for your revolutionary force, you lose that passion that drives you to achieve the extraordinary thing your lowly bourgeois incarnation would never be able to do.
“The teaching of Marx is all-powerful, because it’s truthful” (V.I. Lenin).
From here, the entire paraphernalia of the Communist religion emerges.
Scripture: the corpus magnum of Marxist books that defines the foundation of Communism and is used to define what is true Communism and what is Communist apostasy
Prophets and saints: Marx and Engels (with addition of Lenin, Mao, Marcuse, Kim, Che Guevara, Chávez, or other immortal authoritative figures, according to your preferences and party affiliation)
Objects of pilgrimage and adulation (statues, museums, and mummies of Lenin, Mao, and Kim)
Factional and national conflicts camouflaged as battles against Communist apostates: USSR vs China, China vs Vietnam, Vietnam vs Kampuchea, Soviet vs Yugoslavia, Albania vs everyone else, as well as all the exclusions and purges within the parties
Tradition of passing the torch of true faith to the descendants of prophets (Korea), or disciples anointed by them (Venezuela), or to godly men vetted by an assembly of elders (mostly Politburo)
Legitimacy of power derived not from majority vote or a line of royal provenance, but from the authority of true faith and devotion(Consider ISIS as a vanguard party of Muslims, armed with the only truthful understanding of Quran, which gives it the moral and political authority to enforce on the rest of the community any laws and moral guidelines they find expedient, and you have the exact mirror of Bolsheviks)."