Leninist spirituality

[Michael K.]

The character and nature of the Antichrist was prefigured by the "Messianic" authoritarianism of Lenin, who around him gathered a cult giving bloody worship to the 'Man-god'.

"Much of Lenin's success in 1917 was no doubt explained by his towering domination over the party. No other political party had ever been so closely tied to the personality of a single man. Lenin was the first modern party leader to achieve the status of a god: Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and Mao Zedong were all his successors in this sense. Being a Bolshevik had come to imply an oath of allegiance to Lenin as both the 'leader' and the 'teacher' of the party. It was this, above all, which distinguished the Bolsheviks from the Mensheviks (who had no close leader of their own)..."[3]

Archpriest Lev Lebedev writes that Lenin "understood the main thing in Marx and Marxism and created not simply a political revolutionary party on the basis of the economic and social 'scientific' theory of Marxism: he founded a religion, and one, moreover, in which 'god' turned out to be himself! In this lies the essence of all the disagreements between Lenin and the legal Marxists like Struve and Plekhanov, and the Mensheviks – that is, all those who through naivety and evident misunderstanding took Marxism to be precisely a 'scientific' theory able to serve the 'radiant future' of humanity, beginning with Russia...

For Lenin, as for Marx, the only thing that was necessary and important was his personal power with the obligatory deification of his own person, regardless not only of objections or criticisms, but even simply of insufficient servility. Lenin (like Marx) considered himself to be nothing less than the 'Messiah' – the 'teacher' and 'leader' not only of Russian, but also of world significance. This was the psychology of the Antichrist, which was reflected both in Lenin's teaching on 'the new type of party', and in the 'world revolution', and in the construction of socialism in Russia, and in his 'philosophy', and in his methods of 'leadership', when he and his 'comrades' came to power.

In the sphere of politics Lenin was always, from the very beginning, an inveterate criminal.  For him there existed no juridical, ethical or moral limitations of any kind. All means, any means, depending on the circumstances, were permissible for the attainment of his goal. Lies, deceit, slander, treachery, bribery, blackmail, murder – this was the almost daily choice of means that he and his party used, while at the same time preserving for rank-and-file party members and the masses the mask of 'crystal honesty', decency and humanity – which, of course, required exceptional art and skilfulness in lying...

Lenin, a hereditary nobleman of Russian, German and Jewish origins, was a professional revolutionary who lived on party funds and income from his mother's estate. Choosing to live in the underground[1], he had very little direct knowledge of the way ordinary people lived, and cared even less. "According to Gorky, it was this ignorance of everyday work, and the human suffering which it entailed, which had bred in Lenin a 'pitiless contempt, worthy of a nobleman, for the lives of the ordinary people... Life in all its complexity is unknown to Lenin. He does not know the ordinary people. He has never lived among them.'"...

It was hard to believe that this was a cultivated man. He mocked his opponents, both inside and outside the party, in crude and violent language. They were 'blockheads', 'bastards', 'dirty scum', 'prostitutes', 'cunts', 'shits', 'cretins', 'Russian fools', 'windbags', 'stupid hens' and 'silly old maids'. When the rage subsided Lenin would collapse in a state of exhaustion, listlessness and depression, until the rage erupted again. This manic alteration of mood was characteristic of Lenin's psychological make-up. It continued almost unrelentingly between 1917 and 1922, and must have contributed to the brain haemorrhage from which he eventually died.


By contrast with certain other satanic religions, the religion of Bolshevism had the express character of the worship of the man-god (and of his works as sacred scripture). This was profoundly non-coincidental, since what was being formed here was nothing other than the religion of the coming Antichrist. Lenin was one of the most striking prefigurations of the Antichrist, one of his forerunners, right up to a resemblance to the beast whose name is 666 in certain concrete details of his life (his receiving of a deadly wound and healing from it)...

In view of the fact that communism is by a wide margin the most bloodthirsty movement in human history, having already killed hundreds of millions of people worldwide (and we are still counting), it is necessary to say a few words about this aspect of its activity, which cannot be understood, according to Lebedev, without understanding the movement's "devil-worshipping essence. For the blood it sheds is always ritualistic, it is a sacrifice to demons. St. John Chrysostom wrote: 'It is a habit among the demons that when men give Divine worship to them with the stench and smoke of blood, they, like bloodthirsty and insatiable dogs, remain in those places for eating and enjoyment.' It is from such bloody sacrifices that the Satanists receive those demonic energies which are so necessary to them in their struggle for power or for the sake of its preservation. It is precisely here that we decipher the enigma: the strange bloodthirstiness of all, without exception all, revolutions, and of the whole of the regime of the Bolsheviks from 1917 to 1953."[13]

That communism, a strictly "scientific" and atheist doctrine, should be compared to devil-worshipping may at first seem strange. And yet closer study of communist history confirms this verdict. The communists' extraordinary hatred of God and Christians, and indeed of mankind in general, can only be explained by demon-possession – more precisely, by an unconscious compulsion to bring blood-sacrifices to the devil, who was, in Christ's words, "a murderer from the beginning" (John 8.44)...

In characterizing Socialism in similar terms to those used by Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor, as the temptation to create bread out of stones which Christ rejected, the Patriarch certainly gave a valid critique of Socialism as it was and still is popularly understood – that is, as a striving for social justice on earth, or, as the former Marxist Fr. Sergius Bulgakov put it in 1917, "the thought that first of all and at any price hunger must be conquered and the chains of poverty broken... Socialism does not signify a radical reform of life, it is charity, one of its forms as indicated by contemporary life – and nothing more. The triumph of socialism would not introduce anything essentially new into life."[16] From this point of view, Socialism is essentially a well-intentioned movement that has gone wrong because it fails to take into account God, the commandments of God and the fallenness of human nature.

However, as Igor Shafarevich has demonstrated, Socialism in its more radical form – that is, Revolutionary Socialism (Bolshevism, Leninism, Maoism) as opposed to Welfare Socialism - is very little concerned with justice and not at all with charity. Its real motivation is simply satanic hatred, hatred of the whole of the old world and all those in it, and the desire to destroy it to its very foundations. Its supposed striving for social justice is only a cover, a fig-leaf, a propaganda tool for the attainment of this purely destructive aim, which can be analyzed into four objects: the destruction of: (i) hierarchy, (ii) private property, (iii) the family, and (iv) religion.[17]

Communism cannot be defeated by political, but only by spiritual methods – not by war, not by political re-education, but only by exorcism on a collective scale. For, as Elder Aristocles of Moscow said in 1911, communism is not an ideology, but a spirit from hell... Such exorcism has hardly begun, as is witnessed by the fact that Russia is ruled today by a chekist who toasts Stalin and calls the supposed fall of Soviet communism in 1991 "a geo-political tragedy", as also by the fact that Lenin's body still rests in honour in Red Square.[28] So the results of tomorrow's election will change nothing, whoever wins. Its only significance lies in the fact that it coincides with the Orthodox feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. And so, while the newest neo-Soviet leader is being elected, the True Orthodox Churches – but not those of the Sovietized Moscow Patriarchate, created by Stalin and still ruled by Putin – will be resounding to the sound of Patriarch Tikhon's anathema against the Bolsheviks. For only Christ is the Church can defeat communism, and only the resurrection of True Orthodoxy in Russia will save the world...

Vladimir Moss.

February 20 / March 3, 2012

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