@ Dyz
Why do you consider marxism to be fundamentalist in nature?
At its core are beliefs in the teleological progress of history, immutable laws governing human relations and a view of base and superstructure that lends itself to all manner of conspiracy theories.
Using Distind's definition of "fundie," there are features to be found commonly among Marxist-Leninists as they are among Christians, Jews, Muslims or the denizens of whale.to.:
an extreme lack of rationality
as demonstrated by the many Western deniers of the existence of labor camps of Stalin's Russia during the Great Purges; the defenders of Mao's Cultural Revolution and even the regime of Pol Pot; denial of the genocide at Srebrenica, the genocide in Rwanda etc.
fondness of logical fallacies
I have hardly ever had an argument with a Trotskyist that did not involve the fallacy of relative privation.
repeated use of emotional appeals
Here's a quote from a Marxist website:
The resistance forces are fighting a people’s war, a just war, and a war against fascism. And they are fighting a demoralised enemy comprising a motley combination of bullied conscripts and crazed volunteers (the latter inspired by the vile fascist tradition whose great hero’ was the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera).
These present-day Banderistas would prefer to forget how their great heroes’ (backed by the Nazis) were comprehensively routed, just as they themselves (backed by Nato) are likewise staring catastrophic defeat in the face.
The militias of the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, by contrast, are made up of volunteers dedicated to the defence of their homeland and the struggle against fascism.
We are talking, here, about the guys whose forces have been assisted by Russian conscripts and who may have something to tell us about what happened to flight MH17.
rigid adherence to Bronze Age mythology
Not here - more 19th century mythology
endorsement of pseudoscientific nonsense
Heard of Nikolai Marr and Trofim Lysenko?
opposition to the First Amendment
Marxist regimes are not know fans of the First Amendment. Marxists who live in non-Marxist regimes are frequently, though not always, defenders of such regimes.
bigotry and discriminatory attitudes towards minority groups
Promotion of anti-Semitism under the guise of the campaign against "rootless cosmopolitanism"; the extinction of the Ingrians, the treatment of the Crim Tatars, the Bosnjaks, the Albanians of Yugoslavia, the Bulgarians of Turkey, the Tibetans, the Uighur etc. etc. And again, the Western Marxists who defend all of this.
belief that certain children's media is the work of Satan
For "Satan," substitute "false consciousness."
propensity to post Bible verses instead of valid argument.
For "Bible verses," substitute "articles in Socialist Unity."
This is by no means true of Marxism per se, but nor is Christianity or Islam guilty of many of the crimes against rationality committed by its followers. However, like many Christians and Muslims, Marxists are extremely adept at using "No True Scotsman" and denying that anything they don't like, such as Stalin's Russia, has anything to do with Marxism.
