Is There a Difference Between Religions and Mysticism?

Both are mystical in that they're rejecting rational means of knowledge, but there's a difference to mark them off. Marxists aren't claiming that Marx had some insight that you can't understand or comprehend and you have to take him on faith. They're saying if you participate in dialectical reasoning, you'll see that he's right. So yeah, it's all mystical, hocus pocus even if people have tons of PhDs and write lots of books dialectically, it's still mystical nonsense. But it's not the same thing as what's going on with mainline religions.