Makes sense. Like I think about alcoholic anonymous and how they want you to have a higher power, obviously this is a stand-in for god so they don't get slapped as a religious organization. I always had trouble with that, but I can see the secular alternative being your faith in something like Juche or communism broadly.
As someone who used to be religious, I do find a commitment to communism to have a sort of "religious" aspect to it (meaning that in a positive way). Ultimately the whole reason I'm a communist is I believe in the fundamental value of individual people and believe we're all deserving of dignity. I want to see oppressed people lifted up. I want to live in real community with the people around me and wider humanity. I just want a better world.
These are things my former religion would pay lip service to but in practice pursued the opposite. Communism meanwhile is actually capable of delivering the goods.
Makes sense. Like I think about alcoholic anonymous and how they want you to have a higher power, obviously this is a stand-in for god so they don't get slapped as a religious organization. I always had trouble with that, but I can see the secular alternative being your faith in something like Juche or communism broadly.
As someone who used to be religious, I do find a commitment to communism to have a sort of "religious" aspect to it (meaning that in a positive way). Ultimately the whole reason I'm a communist is I believe in the fundamental value of individual people and believe we're all deserving of dignity. I want to see oppressed people lifted up. I want to live in real community with the people around me and wider humanity. I just want a better world. These are things my former religion would pay lip service to but in practice pursued the opposite. Communism meanwhile is actually capable of delivering the goods.