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Why did so many millions die under Socialism?

It was not only deaths due to starvation and shortages that inevitably result from the loss of efficiency-inducing market prices and private property.

It was certainly that, but it was also--and I would argue more importantly--the elimination of the 'infidels'--those who would not believe what they were supposed to believe. How many were imprisoned and killed simply for their ideological rejection of the Communist worldview? How many imprisoned for being 'reactionaries'? How many for going against 'the party'?

The horrors of 20th century collectivism, far from being the consequence of a LACK of religion, were just another man-fueled theocracy, except their god was History and the 'historical inevitability of return to the primordial One [oneness of being, thought, purpose, property, etc.].'

freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 7mo ago

--which is to say, although I make common cause with those who criticise 'godless Communism' -- it's not exactly true that Communism has no god. The god of Communism is Man (all of us, as One); just the god of _all other forms of gnosticism_ is Man (all of us, as One). The problem with Communism is the same as the problem with gnosticism: neither man (nor Man) is god. That was the Serpents temptation from the begining.

All is not One.

All is Two: Creator, and creature.

He is God; we are not.

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 7mo ago

oof. "...just [as] the god of _all other forms of gnosticism_ is..."

#typosNeverDie