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Donald Meinshausen wrote:

Dear Mike,

I'm writing a novel in which a theme is that Communism is an unconscious attempt to copy the Roman Catholic Church or the Eastern Orthodox Church in saints, structure, zeal and perhaps other matters. Maybe it could be a conscious effort; I'll take any information from any web sites you think could be helpful.

  • Has any person, Catholic, or not, written about this?

Any comparisons of Marx, Che, or Stalin as religious leaders or icons are especially wanted.
I'm a libertarian so you know what I think of Communism.

I'm willing to give you or anyone else credit or I can be discrete.

In my write, rite, and right mind,

Don

  { Can you provide any comparisons between the Church and Communism for a novel I'm writing? }

Mary Ann replied:

Hi, Don —

It has long been said that Communism is the materialist immanentization of Christianity.
Its structure is not comparable though.

What it does say is that a new humanity will spontaneously arise if the conditions are right, which requires the dictatorship of the proletariat (whose vanguard and representative is the Party)
to destroy all remnants of bourgeois reality (i.e. human nature, as we know it).

Anything that is individual in any way, whether learning or rank or property or talent — all must be destroyed or made to only serve the party, to create the right conditions wherein the Communist man, the true human who can do all things, will emerge.

As for the structure, it is cell-based. The cells are absolutely autocratic and the members do not know each other and no cell knows other cells.

By the way, the communists are still around. They didn't evaporate. They are just using other means for the same revolution — the green movement, for one.

Mary Ann

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