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Neither otherworldly beings, nor large groups of people do not manifest their will quickly. That is, you can't find out what this or that otherworldly being or a large team is thinking right now on this or that relevant occasion. This does not create any particular inconvenience if, for example,we are talking about extremely general rules of behavior – religious or communist. “Once upon a time, a particular deity appeared to people and left these rules for centuries.” “Once a large team gathered and came to an agreement on rules for the ages.” But the inconvenience begins when some property is attributed to deities or collectives. Things constantly require the will of the owner. If they belong to such owners who do not show their will promptly, intermediaries do it for them. Everyone can hear the priests proclaiming the will of the deities regarding this or that sacred property. But exactly the same thing is done by the intermediaries of the will of the large collectives – the so-called “vanguard of the working class”, the party and economic nomenclature, and so on. The people are mystified, the will of the people is practically equated with the divine, and clever scammers profit from this.
Faith in God and communism are beliefs that require no proof. In the past, both of these beliefs have led to numerous victims. During the Middle Ages in Europe, faith in God could not prevent bloody religious wars and inquisitions. In the twentieth century, attempts to implement communist ideals in practice led to millions of victims around the world. World religions such as Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism deny and even prohibit violence. In contrast, communist supporters believe that violence (such as the dictatorship of the proletariat and the suppression of exploiting classes) is a fully justified means to achieve this goal.
That's just not necessary to make equality in this matter. This is not a similarity, but a difference. And the difference is that believers believe in God, who, according to their concepts, has an individual and is eternal. And if it is eternal, then it should still be there. But where is he? Show me! Invisible? Then what effects does it have? Helps only true believers? Does it ignore atheists? But no one has yet convinced the atheists of this. And I can show you the facts where the believers were left without the help of their mythical God.
Now about communism. Communism is an abstract concept and a goal that was aimed at. We haven't achieved this goal, so we can't show communism. In Soviet times, there was socialism. It's also an abstract concept, but whoever captured that time won't say they didn't see it. Now-capitalism. They also came to it thanks to perestroika. Look at it (capitalism), admire it 🙂
Did you notice the difference? Communism was an idealized goal that its supporters aspired to, and, if you will, believed that it would be. And God is not an abstract concept for the believers. So what's he doing today?
If we compare communism and Christianity, we will find that they have much more in common than differences.
Who is the first target of Christianity? On the poor and unhappy. They make up its “target audience”. So how does this differ from the communist position? Yes, in principle, nothing. Communists convince the poor that they are the salt of the earth, that it is difficult for them now, but sooner or later a beautiful future will be built – communism, where they will ride like cheese in butter, that is, receive according to their needs. And Christians say the same thing. Only if communists promise to build their own communist paradise in this life, although it is not entirely clear when, then Christians are more cunning and just in case they refer paradise to the afterlife, from which no one returns and nothing can be checked. Even their slogans are surprisingly similar. “And the last will be the first,” says the Bible. “Whoever was nothing will become everything, “the International echoes her.
It should also be noted that both are not only very fond of the poor, but also very skeptical of the rich. This is how the Communists call the proletariat the hegemon, honor the chains of the suffering people, and defeat the representatives of the” exploiting classes ” in their rights. Christians, on the other hand, try to keep up, claiming that God loves the poor, the sick, and the wretched, and that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
The first Christian communities, according to the Bible, were built on the principles of vulgar communism. The people who joined them had to sell all their property and give the money to the leaders of the apostolic communities. Those who tried to cheat and hide some money for themselves were simply killed (just remember the sad story of Ananias and Zemfira).
Some difference is observed in these teachings on the question of attitude to work. Communists called work the highest value, while Christians (with the exception of Protestants) treated work with coolness, as a punishment for sins, but still tolerated it. “The birds of heaven do not sow, nor do they reap, but they are full, so does your heavenly father love you less than the birds?” But in general, in terms of morality, the coincidence of communism and Christianity was almost complete. The moral code of the builders of communism did not differ much from the church's commandments. Both ideologies promoted self-sacrifice, Puritanism, non-possessiveness, and other “values” characteristic of totalitarian sects.
I find it difficult to answer – after all, all these terms were coined by leaders specifically for confusion. And propaganda.
I think if the party is very religious (that is, it is truly close to God through the love and service of the people – all of humanity-in the true concept of the universe) and conscious people will feel this.
Then, in the idealistic picture, the Leaders of the party will be the Sages (elders) who carry the idea of God to all other people.
But people should be given the right to choose such Party Leaders (elders / sages). Therefore, I would call this system something like that: Neo-democratic Capitalism with faith in the true creator (God).
In this case, CONSCIOUS people would choose their own Spiritual Leaders of the party (Sages, elders), so that they would coordinate the work of the entire people in the direction of serving God.
And now all the terms and true concepts are Deliberately Distorted by Satanic servants. Therefore, we are given a SOUL to feel WHERE the ENEMY is a TRAITOR, and where the SAGE is a SERVANT-GUIDE (of true divine knowledge)!
Look at the root and feel the SOUL!
God is with us!
That neither one nor the other has ever been seen.
Marxism and religious faith have a similarity, for example, in that they are not falsifiable, that is, based on the criterion proposed by K. Popper, they are unscientific. And if we talk about the similarity of communism with a religion such as Christianity, then if desired, such similarities or even parallels can be found. The chosen people-the Jews, and then the Christians, the Jewish prophets and the Messiah Christ, leading them to liberation and the end of history in the form of the last Judgment – are Christians. For Marxists ,the “God-chosen people” is the proletarian prophets Marx and Engels, the messiah Lenin and Communism as the end of history, though not as a stream of events, but as the history of the development of social relations.
Communist ideology was built on the principles of religion with its own prophets, saviours, martyrs, commandments, sins, and paradise. That is, it is such a pseudo-religion, false.
It's both warm and soft. By definition, there can be no similarity.
Communism is a socio-economic formation. Faith is a religion.
Faith as a religion exists in all formations: feudal, social. comm.
At the same time, there are different “faiths”in the comm formation (China).
only in our time can we answer this question-what is the sky, where the gods live, not only the Olympian gods.And for this reason-in the form of gods are aliens.For this reason, technology becomes the essence of divine revelation, and only by submitting to the new technology can earthly beings continue to live and exist.Lasers and superweapons have long since replaced divine morality-now even God's angels are the stuff of new technology.A believer will have to wake up as an atheist again and again at the demand of the new time-and also hide his atheism with enhanced methods.
If we take our Soviet communism, the similarities are obvious. Many Communists were fanatics in their own right, and if as children they wanted to be priests(Stalin, Dzerzhinsky), then as adults they chose a different path. Exterminating infidels during the Crusades is godly. Exterminating the enemies of the revolution is a good deed in the name of a bright future, that is, again, according to the exalted ideology. The image of the capitalist, or “bourgeois”, is the same antagonism to the communist as the heretic, which is unfaithful to the believer. All these are primitive ways of sublimating the energy of fanaticism, but inherent in humanity throughout its history. Now we take the images of saints. Marx, Engels, Lenin – the holy Trinity. Various apostles and saints. The Stalins, Dzerzhinskys, Sverdlovskys, Yezhovs, and others. Even Judas is his own – this is Bronstein(Trotsky). Such cases.
The similarity is huge. This is especially evident in the example of the Soviet Union. At the dawn of Soviet power, it became clear to the Bolsheviks that they would not be able to build communism in the foreseeable future, so the idea was abandoned for the people in something future and bright, like the Christian Kingdom of Heaven. Well, for one thing, the atheist Bolsheviks copied all the religious paraphernalia ,so that by the end of the 30s the Soviet system began to look more like an authoritarian religious sect. Everything was there: the Ancient prophets (Marx, Engels) with the Old Testament (Marx's Capital), the Righteous caliphs(Lenin, Stalin), the party – as a system of church hierarchy. The system of initiation peculiar to any religion( Oktyabryonok-pioneer-Komsomolets – party). Cult of the dead in the form of Lenin in the mausoleum and the pantheon of red martyrs who fell for the faith. But as time went on, the sect moved from the category of totalitarian to the category of just authoritarian, the party-church began to move away from dogmas, the flock began to guess that the Kingdom of Heaven would most likely not be, the caliphs became more and more senile. And as a result, the Soviet ideology, like any religion, had a beginning, flourishing and decline, only in a slightly shortened version…
There is a God, but there is no communism. I agree, it's a pity, but alas. To know, not fate! As for faith, you don't have to believe in God. As Woland said: God is everything. But you can believe in communism precisely because of its absence. In the end, the ideas that have taken hold of the masses become a great force.
Based on the discussion in the comments, I would formulate the answer as follows.
Both are based on the belief in a conditional bright future — regardless of whether it will come during the life of current generations, their descendants, or even in the afterlife.
The sacred texts and commandments in religion are close to the social contract that underlies any communist system: everyone will do everything possible to achieve the common good, despite personal enrichment or, there, other designated sins. The institution of punishment for ideological crimes in both cases works very short-sighted, but severely: it may not notice you all your life, but if it does, it will most likely smear you on the wall. Or maybe even punish them for nothing at all — just so that the others would not be offended.
Both blurs the individual's active position and responsibility for his own life, partially or completely shifting it to the ideology, the collective, or higher forces.
(Please note that I do not consider myself a critic of communism or religion; both are tools for achieving goals, sometimes even preferred ones.)
the question is not formulated clearly enough – either you are looking for similarities between the idea of Christ and the ideas of Marx, for example,or you are looking for an explanation of such a phenomenon as faith-faith in anything.�
If we are talking about the former, then the similarity between Marxism and Christianity is that they are both aimed at building a just, reasonable society based on the common good, unity, etc.The only difference is that Christ calls for doing this by personal feat, and Marx calls for doing this by class struggle, by dictating ideas, by terror, by destroying dissenters or, in extreme cases, re – education-in general, “the end justifies any means”.
If we are talking about the phenomenon of faith in general, and what faith in God and faith in Marx or any other faith have in common, then what is common is the openness of one's consciousness and will to some idea, teaching, or paradigm that is recognized by the individual as basic, defining, and true. Well, then there is the expression of this idea and how this idea is embodied or not embodied in History and life. Simply put, faith is acceptance – since we live in a world where everything is hidden, it is not clear and not obvious that there are many “explanations” of the nature of the world, its essence, its meanings, etc. There are conflicts between ideas, complementarities, dialogue of ideas, collision, competition, etc. And people choose their ideas and believe in them, and the future determines the quality of these ideas and faith in them.