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It's been noted so often that I don't know who said it first that communism became a secular religion, which in retrospect was sort of inevitable; Marx swapped Hegel's idealism for materialism, but kept the rest of his philosophy of history mostly as-is, and history being the World Spirit figuring itself out is a theological notion even if you replace the World Spirit with humanity. I don't think it can work that way anymore, and I don't think I'd want it to; I have never known a True Believer in communism, but I've known enough True Believers in The Market and in God to know I don't like True Believers.