THE RELIGION THAT IS MARXISM

THE RELIGION THAT IS MARXISM

Marxism is also a religion, albeit a totalitarian atheistic, rather antitheistic (Hitchens' coinage) religion that like the Abrahamic religions is utopian in its ultimate idealism but which pretends to be humanistic, its humanism being limited to the proletariat class and its savagery directed towards the propertied class, the capitalists. It is a thoroughly materialistic system of thought, sophisticated in its rational dispositions, although scientifically flawed, as the post-Marxian scientific developments have amply testified. But the worst feature of it is its attempted crude rational justification of class violence aimed at obliteration of the capitalist class en route to socialist revolution. Thereafter, its post-revolutionary violence is horrific which it justifies as the purge necessary to establish socialism. 

Marxism crushes human freedom, human rights, the right to vote and democratically elect the citizens' government, abolishes all political parties but itself, silences free speech, unleashes terror in a police state masquerading as the proletariat's state, its political system nicely dubbed 'dictatorship of the proletariat' which in practice boils down to being the dictatorship of the Central Committee of the Communist Party which then becomes the dictatorship of the Politburo and finally the dictatorship of the General Secretary, all along keeping up the pretence before the world through its 'Iron Curtain Policy' that it is the most humane system of political living, the ideal socialist state ruled by the proletariat. Only those who endure its reign know its horrors. 

There is another catch to this system. Being an oppressive totalitarian regime, Marxism crushes human ingenuity and enterprise, and reduces citizens to slaves doing the daily regimen in a 'command and carry out' structure. Hence, creativity is stifled and with it progress, leave aside human happiness. Moreover, state-run enterprises in an overly planned evonomy inevitably fail to deliver on the economic promises in the long run and within a generation or two the entire edifice of socialist economy collapses revealing the hollow foundation of Marxism. Suffering, suffering, endless suffering till the very people who had built this brutal system pull it down.

Written by Sugata Bose