I am sorry, but how is ‘dialectical materialism’ not just an attempt at a secular version of revelations. If you are going to make bullshit claims that communism is incompatible with spirituality, then the same claims that a lot of Marx’s influences are incompatible with atheism and spirituality still shines at Marx’s attempt at making a purely atheistic dialectic materialism. First of all, it has an extremely strong reminiscence to eastern ideas of ‘karma’. Karma not being luck or something bad automatically happening to you for doing something bad, but the automatic chain of cause and effect in existence, in which everything is existence reacting with itself. The idea of an End To History and socialism being inevitable is bullshit in a completely chaotic random world, because the slippery slope fallacy proves that you cannot account for the millions of mitigating circumstances that could happen, Marx did not live in a time of nukes or knowledge of climate change - he could not know that humanity could wipe itself out before socialism could ever be established. Unless you people hold a subconscious belief that the natural materialistic karma of the world is a reflection of spiritual principles, which you clearly do no matter how much you try to deny it otherwise you would deny there being really any natural dialectic towards socialism at all (because of a thousand things that could happen that we aren’t even aware of that could steer things in a completely different course). Even the idea of the end of class conflict causing an end to religion and ‘God’, and the end of time, is something that has extremely mystical underpinnings - because it’s essentially the entire message of Christianity! Paul pretty much claims the exact same thing! If everyone is under the oneness of the son, if there is no sense of power or division, then isn’t man under the oneness of God? Is God not manifesting Himself through man? And if man is within the oneness of God, the idea of ‘God’ disappears since ‘God’ is just a name for something unspeakable, and if man is one with God there wouldn’t be any need for a name or concept to realise God as separate from oneself. Since heaven and earth are united, there would be no need to recognise the spiritual separate from the material, since the spiritual and the material would be made one.
In Marxism’s staunch atheism a shadow of spirituality shines, Marxism feels like a mix of a ‘materialistic’ Buddhist-Christianity. Buddhism t
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