Oh, you mean the Masonic Jacobin pagans, themselves an offshoot of the Frankist illuminati, heirs to Sabbatai Tzvi. Antelman puts the nexus there, but even the Templars were into some pretty weird stuff.
Evil is evil. It's been with humanity a very long time.
I put the demarcation with the Gramsci and the Frankfurt School because they were the crew that installed his formally communist ideology in the American university culture.
Oh, I didn´t mean to say that you are wrong, I just wanted to add some long-term perspective.
Personally, I´m drawn to Voegelin´s perspective, I.e. that this kind of substituting wishful (albeit illogical) thinking regarding this world for God has been with us for a very long time, and that it follows a rather predictable pattern.