When politics starts to sound like religion, it’s usually because something sacred has gone missing.
You can hear it in the chants, the moral outrage, and the need for purity. You can see it in the eyes of young activists who want to save the world, not just fix it, but redeem it.
That’s what makes modern socialism so powerful and so dangerous. It doesn’t just promise equality. It promises meaning.
Today’s youth aren’t flocking to Marx out of greed or hatred. They’re running from despair. Many have no spiritual grounding, no stable families, and no belief that life has a higher purpose. So they turn to ideology.
Karl Marx once said religion was “the opiate of the masses.” But his full statement reveals something much deeper and far more relevant today.
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