#TLDR we do not need to be saved by hero-karl-marx -

[13thpythagoras]

I believe Marx erred in eschewing religion altogether.

Marx should have worked with religion rather than against it; Jesus was already a communist in the wings waiting to be drafted into the movement, Marx missed a huge opportunity to highlight how Jesus was essentially a communist, and that there are a great many revolutionary bible passages that support this, such as

Mathew 19:23-24 — Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Is it not plain as the noon-day sun? Jesus Christ is telling Christians to give up everything they own at the altar of the Lord and become disciples of HIM! Similarly, this was a requirement of ancient Pythagoras, and many of the mystery schools, to gain entrance into their secret societies.

Luke 12:15: Then [Jesus] said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.”

Communism then, making many of the same demands, it baffles me and bewilders me why and how man-with-a-brain TM Karl Marx could have missed this astronomically significant connection that he was tapping into a much older lineage of thought. Perhaps it is hubris, and the desire to be an original discoverer of original truth, that hero the west craves.

Yet it is through my learnings from eastern philosophies that taught me to cast off the need for a hero, or necessarily, salvation. Balance is the central value of the eastern perspectives, I've found, not salvation.

Calling religion the opiate of the masses and telling people to get over it does nothing to show people a better way. Now the Dalai Lama is exiled from his majestically beautiful homeland and there are countless other stories like this, where religious freedoms are trampled under authoritarian structures.

Jesus was absolutely an anti-racist and anti-capitalist if you look at the bible, he's the poster child of our movement, essentially telling people to come back to Jesus and that they've lost their way, and that antiracist-democratic-socialist-communism is actually the preferred method of governance for Christians, always has been; it's a train to get on, reclaiming these roots.