Is Leftism a religion?

They have a bearded God - Marks
They have a Jesus/Mosses - Lenin
They have a Judas - Stalin
They have a bible - Manifesto
etc - etc

Discuss.

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It's religion without the transcendence, which is why they're so destructive.

They have a heaven - utopia they want to build
They have a decalog - Human Rights

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Christianity IS proto-Marxism.

They have holy days - Workers day etc
They have masses - protests

They reject everything they can but inadvertantly fit a prescribed pattern. It's not a religion because there isn't a unified belief, but rather a cluster of power grabs.

They have crusades - WWII
They have their cross - red star

>Marks
stopped reading there

>The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity. Christianity is a prototype of Bolshevism: the mobilisation by the Jew of the masses of slaves with the object of undermining society. Thus one understands that the healthy elements of the Roman world were proof against this doctrine. Yet Rome to-day allows itself to reproach Bolshevism with having destroyed the Christian churches! As if Christianity hadn't behaved in the same way towards the pagan temples.

They have hell - Right wing/Nazizm
They have Saints - Trocky etc

And mass murder and misery will always follow their utopianism, because they wish to make an imperfect place, into a perfect place. This world is not meant to be a paradise, that's what Heaven is for, and it's why Christ's kingdom is "not of this world."

This is the ultimate lesson of comparing the two: Christianity urges us to make the best of what we are given, while Marxism urges us to attempt to create a paradise and let whatever cost be paid.

Yes. It also has the same mindset as christiany. Slave morality without obvious supernatural mysticism.

There is still mysticism. Namely, the unjustifiable assumption that history is progressive, also that its mechanism of progression is dialectics, and finally that its ethics are correct (we are all equal, one life is worth just as much as another, unequally valued work deserves equal pay, etc).

This is Popper's argument against the left. These assumptions cannot be tested so leftism cannot be considered "true" in any sense of the word.

Nietzche attacks it differently. Leftism is an instantiation of slave ethics just as christianity was before it. Basically it is a way that a conquered but numerous people can wrench power from their masters. Problem is slave morality is not a sublimation of the will to power it is instead a perversion of it, power through rewarding powerlessness, essentially is contra the human spirit and hopefully we can progress past it.

They have relic - Lenin mausoleum
They have satan - Hitler

>Slave morality.

Leftism it's an ideology of the over privileged since the 70's.

>They have a Judas - Stalin
Stalin was actually the best thing that happened to communism
>They have a decalog - Human Rights
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Those digits.
We should make an infographic, but I am still thinking about what similarities there are.

Leftism is too vague friend.

But assuming you're talking about Marxism: Not really. Religion is a near endless list of misconceptions and exxagerations of utterly misunderstood events and the human imagination.

Marxism is just an economic and social failure of egalitarianism attempting to address the economic and social failures of decentralized and unregulated human nature present in capitalist thought.

There are similarities, but you're oversimplifying it.

They have a creation myth - evolution
They have angels - aliens

Nietzsche wrote at length how slave morality can become dominant among the ruling class... This was especially easy because of christianity (which WAS a slave religion, slaves to Caesar) and its parallels to marxian ethics.

Want to blame somebody for this blame Constantine. If the romans didn't adopt this absurd religion that teaches people to be meek sheep (literally) then we wouldnt have leftism.

I think a popper argument against communism would be a great infographic since the left is circulating one about a misread version of the paradox of intolerance.

To see his work on leftism read the 1st chapter of conjectures and refutations (where he differentiates between science and psuedoscience, the poverty of historicism, and volume 2 of the open society and its enemies (vol one attacks plato and the far right).

Lots of good summaries online too

Pretty much every ideology bears traits of religion although totalitarian ideologies like leftism are especially similiar to religion due to their ability to deny facts and proofs (it has never been tried, x communist state was state capitalism, what happened didn't really happen and so on).
Also magical thinking that is political correctness. "If you call nigger a nigger he becomes a nigger so stop doing it".
I wouldn't call Marx a prophet of the left though because most leftist didn't even read him and modern soy-left would probably denounce him the moment they found that he despised niggers, mexicans and lumpenproles like the SJW feminist crowd.

Also, modern left loves self-flagellation a lot like a little religious perverts they are

it has the problems of a religion.

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The Cult of Equality

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It answers your question very well

I was thinking the same as you op and when i saw this it fell into place for me. Just listening to progressives talk... they sound like religious extremists.

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Pretty much, I've been reading about Communist Albania and the people worship the state. For example "God created man" would be "The Party created the new man" and "Faith in Christ/Muhammad" would be changed to "Faith in the Party and Comrade Enver"
Religious saints were replaced with the four pillars of Marxism (that being Marks, Engels, Lenin and Stalin) and Christ's disciples were replaced by the 12 members of the Politburo. Hundreds of thousands of Churches and mosques were torn down by the government and rather than reading religious doctrine they would read about Marxism and the Communist cause. It's worth noting that Communist Albania was the first ever "Atheist" nation, but they basically replaced "God" with "the Party"

>The weak should be crushed by the strong
>But those mean christians should stop bullying pagans :(((((

The paganism was not exactly "crushed" it was subverted by the Roman politicians and only when there were enough christians they dared to outlaw paganism.
Basically the same thing that is happening to the Europe and islam today.

Christianity ensured that muslims didn't take over europe

Warriors who were not even able to read the Bible and didn't give a shit about compasion and muh Jesus (except him being the banner they were fighting under) ensured that muslimg didn't take over the Europe.