'The secret history of Marxist alien hunters'

[Nearly Sane]

Well, sort of. Still an interesting musing on Marxist futurology



https://theoutline.com/post/5384/the-secret-history-of-marxist-alien-hunters?zd=1&zi=lzwhywbn

[Harrowby Hall]

As I read it, I kept thinking that this might be what Sparky would be into if he hadn't found religion.

[Nearly Sane]

As I read it, I kept thinking that this might be what Sparky would be into if he hadn't found religion.

Some readings of Marx have little difference to religion. Indeed that relates to the whole questioning what a religion is, as has been raised in the Pasta La Vista thread.

[Harrowby Hall]

Some readings of Marx have little difference to religion.

I remember, in the olden days, watching That Was The Week That Was in which the programme totally characterised Marxism as a religion.

[Nearly Sane]

Again, I think that the definition of religion can be so elastic as to become virtually meaningless. It's part of the problem of the Laws quote that for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. In any traditional sense of religion that's just wrong. You just need an ideology, or indeed a single value that leads to what might be the definition of 'bad things' in the quote.

There are plenty of people on my timelines elsewhere treating Remain/Brexit as leading good people to do bad, and the same with Trump, Corbyn, and the SN P along with almost any view on anything anyone has.