Communism is and always has been a cult. Socialism is a political ideology. Communism contains all the hallmarks of religion: the belief that you have the one ideology which explains everything and can literally predict the future (dialectical materialism) and is explicitly a plan to murder your enemies to achieve an eschatological end-time which is both poorly explained (Marx basically never explained how a perfect communist society would actually function or what it would look like) and also unachievable (after the revolution, communists tend to spend all their time purging and massacring other communists who aren’t communist enough). Communism even suppressed science which they believed was incompatible with dialectical materialism - relativity, quantum physics; despite the Soviet union having a strong nuclear weapons program, for a period in the 1940s and 1950s these theories and areas of science were considered counter-revolutionary. Same as in China during the cultural revolution. They killed heretics the same way the catholic church and spanish inquisition did because communism is a cult.
The revolution never ends - communism is impossible. Not because of “human nature” or anything like that, but because communists NEED enemies the kill. Murder is built into the religion.
thats a political ideology identiy, it isnt a cult.
Communism is and always has been a cult. Socialism is a political ideology. Communism contains all the hallmarks of religion: the belief that you have the one ideology which explains everything and can literally predict the future (dialectical materialism) and is explicitly a plan to murder your enemies to achieve an eschatological end-time which is both poorly explained (Marx basically never explained how a perfect communist society would actually function or what it would look like) and also unachievable (after the revolution, communists tend to spend all their time purging and massacring other communists who aren’t communist enough). Communism even suppressed science which they believed was incompatible with dialectical materialism - relativity, quantum physics; despite the Soviet union having a strong nuclear weapons program, for a period in the 1940s and 1950s these theories and areas of science were considered counter-revolutionary. Same as in China during the cultural revolution. They killed heretics the same way the catholic church and spanish inquisition did because communism is a cult.
The revolution never ends - communism is impossible. Not because of “human nature” or anything like that, but because communists NEED enemies the kill. Murder is built into the religion.
A political ideology with cult-like tendencies.