WHAT DOES THE CULT OF PERSONALITY MEAN? HOW DID HE MANIFEST HIMSELF IN THE SECULAR RELIGIONS?
WHAT DOES THE CULT OF PERSONALITY MEAN? HOW DID HE MANIFEST HIMSELF IN THE SECULAR RELIGIONS?

Summary/Abstract: IN THE SECULAR RELIGIONS WE CONSIDER TOTAL AND TOTALIZING POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES: ONE IS THE FASCISM AND THE OTHER IS THE COMMUNISM. THE IDEOLOGY OF FASCISM AND THAT OF COMMUNISM ARE DIFFERENT, WITH DIFFERENT MEANINGS, IMPLICATIONS AND ORIGINS. EQUALLY, HOWEVER, BOTH EXPLAIN THE COMMITMENT, THE ABILITY OF INDIVIDUALS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TOTALITARIAN CATASTROPHES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. THIS EVENT WAS NAMED BY LESZEK KOŁAKOWSKI, THE DEVIL IN HISTORY. IT IS THE EXPRESSION OF THE REALITY THAT HAS FUNDAMENTALLY MARKED THE LIFE OF SO MANY PEOPLES IN HISTORY. IT IS ABOUT THE TRAGEDIES RESULTING FROM IMMEASURABLE AND RECKLESS AMBITIONS TO FORCE THE COURSE OF HISTORY IN THE NAME OF ABSTRACT IDEALS MEANT TO RESULT IN PERFECT POLITICAL COMMUNITIES. SECULAR RELIGIONS PLACE THE SALVATION OF HUMANITY IN THIS WORLD, IN A MORE OR LESS DISTANT FUTURE, IN THE FORM OF A SOCIAL ORDER TO BE INVENTED. THE GREAT THEMES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION: THE FALL, THE ORIGINAL HAPPINESS, THE REDISCOVERY, THE ATONEMENT, THE MESSIANIC SUBJECT ARE FOUND IN THE HISTORICAL MYTH OF MARXISM. SECULAR RELIGIONS ARE NARRATIVES WITH SAVING CLAIMS.

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