Marxism is a religion like Christianity and Islam.
Try to prove me wrong.
youre the one making a claim tf you mean prove me wrong?
The burden of proof is on you.
OP is retarded like someone who was kicked in the head by a horse or dropped as a baby
Try to prove me wrong
It kind of is. They just believe in a worldly paradise.
>>822046Exactly. The fact that it is atheistic doesn't mean it's not religion. See Buddhism for example.
Even Christianity's monotheism is different from Islam's monotheism.
>>822050>Exactly. The fact that it is atheistic doesn't mean it's not religion. See Buddhism for example.>Even Christianity's monotheism is different from Islam's monotheism.It depends on the definition of "religion". For me it's the idea of sacredness.
>>822050buddhism is not atheistic
>>822029My dick is like a religion to your mother.
Try to prove me wrong.
- Communism represents the "end of history," just as Paradise does in Christianity.
- Marxism has its own version of "original sin": you might be a good person, but if you are a capitalist, you are sinful nonetheless. (Furthermore, anything that contradicts the communist mainstream is also considered a sin.)
- Marxism has its own "chosen people" – the proletariat.
- Marxism has its own sacred text (the complete works of Marx).
- Marxism has its own prophets and martyrs (Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Che, and others, depending on your specific denomination).
- Marxism has its heresies (such as Trotskyism; for Trotskyists, conversely, the Stalinists are the heretics).
- Marxists claim to be scientific yet fail to follow the scientific method. They are essentially identical to a religion – specifically, an Abrahamic one.
>>823190> Communism represents the "end of history," just as Paradise does in Christianity.They need a couple of new prophets to update their theory but that's just going to split it into multiple religions fighting over the same bit of land. Marxism is a fail as a system.
He does make some cool points though.
>>823190not a single one of these points is true. maybe that could apply to dogmatic twitter leftists but please read actual marxists
>>823223>See? It was easy.Every religion is a 'not a religion but a way of life', just go see for yourself
>>823223>it is not based on faithIt WiLl WoRk ThIs TiMe!
>and it's perfectly compatibile with materialist mechanicist atheismMarxists do not follow the scientific method if it contradicts their religion and somehow portrays their sacred writings as incorrect.
>>823230there are no sacred writings. agreeing on a specific framework or worldview that an author wrote about ≠ religion.
people still read robespierre, macchiavelli, adam smith. are these sacred scriptures too?
>>823235>are these sacred scriptures too?I haven't seen anyone fanatically adhere to everything all those people wrote.
>>823238Except they didn't, "fanatically adhere to everything all those people wrote.." you moron, if that was the case you have a fuck ton of different ideological strains built on either new interpretations or rejection of ideas presented. Even when considering 'socialist' states, they had no qualms of outright rejecting texts or ideas, for god sake Marx literally believed that communism could only be achieved in advanced countries with a universal revolution occurring simultaneously! (If they did adhere to everything he wrote, then the USSR wouldn't exist). Marx himself changed his own ideas on what socialism should be after the Communist Manifesto and revising his earlier beliefs which he took from a Saint-simonist socialist called Considérant, Victor Prosper who created his own manifesto, for which Marx and Engles copied from… Anyway, Marx's Gotha programme and writings on the Paris Commune made different strands of Communist ideologies (as they focused on particular issues or ideas) come to existence such as Council Communism, with non-Marxist influences becoming integral to major Marxist movements. The USSR's embrace of central planning did not come from Marx, but early 20th century war economies such as German krieg-sozialismus and in-kind planning. The major problems with you idiots is that you don't understand how any ideology can be dogmatically be adhered to, so you attach any instance of this phenomena to it being a 'religion', instead of dogmatism being the issue, which itself is contextual.
>>822029
>marxism is a religion"how"
>dur religion is having standarized beliefs about morality and history, and having an organziational structureOP is correct and retardedly wrong simoultaneously, and that is dialectics
Who brought back this shit thread? It was so close to its sweet and graceful death.
yes we are and we will crush you
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