Anti established religion does not mean they shun the methods religions use to control followers. Their crusades certainly aren't nice, but they frame it as promoting a greater good which is how they get so many useful idiots to their cause.
The themes like "Stalin, the friend of all children" came only after achieving totalitarian power. Revolutionary struggle themes were all angry and violent.
Anti established religion does not mean they shun the methods religions use to control followers. Their crusades certainly aren't nice, but they frame it as promoting a greater good which is how they get so many useful idiots to their cause.
The themes like "Stalin, the friend of all children" came only after achieving totalitarian power. Revolutionary struggle themes were all angry and violent.
Yes, but those themes were laundered by complicit media and academia as being in service of goodness.