Karl Marx as Religious Eschatologist

http://mises.org/story/3769

Unbelievable! I learned a ton from this piece. For one I had always assumed that communism started with marx, but here the earlier roots of communism are explained.

Also this details and explains the spiritual world-view that underlies communism. its a world-view where individualism simply does not exist. This is the satanic plan from the war in heaven. Under it the highest and ultimate destiny of man kind is to surrender individual will to a cosmic collective governed by a single, infinite, self. But its not really even a collective as that would imply a collection of individuals. In this plan there is only one infinite will and it stands alone and there is nothing beyond it, it is the universe. In short Satan's will would have become the only operative will in the universe overriding, consuming, even the Father ("give me your glory"), whereas the Father's plan created/allowed individual agency.

There is irony and hypocracy here in that Satan had an individual will given to him by the Father and was thus permited to hatch and offer his scheme, which he then tried to use to take away every one elses will including the Father who had granted him his will in the first place. It's like Zeus and the Titans.

The eerie part is that the satanic world-view uses certain words - like "freedom" or "diversity"- but the meanings are inverted. It reminds me of Orwell: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. I'm only about a 1/3 of the way through this, but I had to blog the link so make sure that i dont lose it.