Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens. A brief history of mankind (№ 305131)

Like other religions, communism has its own Holy and prophetic Scripture: "Capital" Marx, who predicted the imminent end of history is inevitable
the victory of the proletariat. The Communists have a special holidays - for example, the First of may and the anniversary of the October revolution. Has its own theologians - philosophers-Marxists, and the Soviet army chaplains-the commissioners followed the state of mind of soldiers and officers. Communism has had its martyrs, its Holy wars, its heresy - Trotskyism, for example. Soviet communism was a fanatical missionary religion. Communism was not combined neither with Christian beliefs, nor Buddhist, a devoted Communist was to help spread the gospel of Marx, even at the cost of his own life.