It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.