今天翻罗素的西方哲学史时看到一段,太经典了,摘抄如下
The jewish pattern of history,past and future,is such as to make a powerful appeal to oppressed and unfortunate at all times.St Augustine adapted this pattern to Christianity,Marx to socialism.To understand Marx psychologically,one should use the following dictionary:
Yahweh=Dialectical Materialism
The Messisah=Marx
The Elect=The Proletariat
The Church=The Communist Party
The Second Coming=The revolution
Hell=Punishment of The Capitalists
The Millennium=The Communist Commonwealth
The terms on the left give the emotional content of the terms on the right,and it is this emotional content,familiar to those who have had a Christian or a Jewish upbringing,that makes Marx’s eschatology credible.A similar dictionary could be made for the Nazis,but their conceptions are more purely Old Testament and less Christian than those of Marx,and their Messiah is more analogous to the Maccabees than to Christ.
之前脑袋里面萌芽般的想法被罗素具体化了,看来马克思主义确实具备宗教的基本特征