>>17866699
>It’s like they take organized religion, cut out God, but kept everything else.
It's similar. It's not enough for a full-blown communist to believe that land and capital should be held in common, he has a militantly certain belief in various elaborate and dogmatic beliefs like dialectical materialism. Now create a state in which from birth to death, the individual is surrounded by the loving care of the mother party and its general secretary with a wide range of professions from journalists to teachers -- and all newspapers and television and radio -- engaged regularly in "uplifting" socialism. The results are not great.
https://youtu.be/VersLJjqRGY