8.Since Sorel, the use of lies….myths….to manipulate the masses has always been the mode for the Left’s pseudo-religions.
The 'religion' that the Left created, ironically, tries to mimic the New Testament.
a. There were always subversive dwellers of Babylon, good at trading various commodities, polluting society with their abominations. Bourgeoisie, kulaks, Freemasons and cosmopolitans, and, always, Jews. Aided, of course, by Satanic forces, variously identified as capitalists, or Americans and their technology ( Heidegger’s Nazi interpretation) or the international Jewish conspiracy.
b. The reign of God, their God…the state, was always just ahead. The Age of the Proletariat (Bolsheviks and Stalinists); the resurrected Roman Empire (Fascists); the reign of Christ the King (Spanish Phalange); or a blond Aryan version of the Roman Empire, called the Third Reich (Nazis).
c. And the period of grace was going to be pure and perfect- cleansed of pollutants and abominations. Purity of unexploited labor (Bolsheviks and Stalinists); purity of Roman Grandeur (Fascists); the purity of Catholic virtue (Phalange); or the biological purity of Aryan blood (Nazis). And, always, to last for a thousand years: a perfect society- no flaws, no competition, no turmoil.
d. Of course, for all of the movements, it would be a one-party, unchallenged state, representing the final unity of mankind.
e. And the leader…a superman, a genius of geniuses, the one predicted by history, godlike- thrilling his worshipful followers… perhaps establishing a new religion….
f. Always, before the reign, there was going to be the war of Armageddon- the exterminating bloodbath! The class war (Bolsheviks and Stalinists); the Crusade (Fascists); of the race war (Nazis).
Revelation 19:21 “And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse,…”
Paul Berman, “Terror And Liberalism”