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The Dialectical Faith of Leftism | James Lindsay

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The Failure of the United States of America to Identify Communism as a Religion

If this is a theology and all of this woke stuff or Marxist stuff behind it is a religion then the United States of America and its institutions cannot endorse it. They cannot pass laws forcing people to follow those duties of conscience because people are guaranteed the freedom of their duty of conscience by the first amendment. People can be as woke or Marxist or communist as they want but they cannot operate it through the system of the state which is going to put a big monkey wrench in their gears. It's kind of hard to have a state apparatus enforcing a socialist program until it works if you can't run it through the state.

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