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The Secular Religion of Socialism

By Filings on Wed, 11/20/19
Society & Culture
Socialism
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“Joshua Muravchik’s Heaven on Earth gives one answer. A former socialist who abandoned the ideology in his 30s, Muravchik argues that we should understand the interest in socialized government, and the decline in nationalist sentiment, as a secular religion.” - Intellectual Takeout

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Aaron Blumer

New"national sovereignty"?

Wed, 11/20/19

Some good points. I don’t why he keeps plugging “national sovereignty” in there, though. That’s a completely separate question… and actually pretty socialism-friendly, not an alternative to it.

Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.

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Mark_Smith

NewAaron Blumer wrote:

Wed, 11/20/19

[Aaron Blumer]

Some good points. I don’t why he keeps plugging “national sovereignty” in there, though. That’s a completely separate question… and actually pretty socialism-friendly, not an alternative to it.

Because the modern view of socialism is about the individual being equal to each other. Your identity is you, not as a member of a nation.

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