On this anniversary of the Bloody Week, something has struck me, how come socialism and more specifically marxism, in its history since its inception, has been so similar to early christian history ?
I mean think about it, a movement that is mostly aimed towards popular, first kind of chaotic but quickly unified by a main theory, this being Marx. The movement born from this (and other writing, arguably stands for other socialist movement, be they formed from Marx' works or completely separate in origin), with the birth of disparate and not always so united communities, which for a good while were usualy persecuted by the established power. With the development of studies surrounding socialism further on, we see the birth of dogmas, notably in the established socialist states like the USSR, where those established theories becomes official policy. Meanwhile in non socialist states, the communities stay either persecuted or at best tolerated. With the variety of movements and ideas, I find it quite close to early christianity and its oh so varied theological takes.
On another note, I do find interesting how much leftist organization do use religious speech patterns in general, with key words carrying their almost self evident meaning, with a common ideal and struggle and so on. The idea came to me as I was thinking about future history, how will, in say 400 years, these leftist communities be studied ? Could a comparison to medieval/early modern jewish communities also be drawn out ?
Any opinion on the matter ? The comparison could probably be expanded. I'm just kind of curious.
>>2277977What the fuck are you on about. Socialism is an extremely loosened version of Christianity. Christianity without fangs is just "guys, be nice to each other". Socialism is just "we can run the world if we're nice to each other, right?!" There's zero awareness of human nature. That's the power, the fangs. If socialists understood human nature, they would become esoteric conservatives, even though they may not agree with most right wing parties, as they are composed of loud retarded points of view that in no serious way oppose the establishment or the other powers that be, and also offers frail solutions to social issues. Esoteric conservatives understand that things used to work better than liberals believe (ie, not all new ideas are better ideas), but they're also smart enough to know that you can't just apply a single rule from the past without changing a bunch of other things too. To the degree that you even care about the world / politics, is the degree that they would be willing to make comprehensive changes to the world. This obviously has a ton of bias and blindspots, and it is by no means perfect, but this is still the real source of power that whoever comes next must claim.