[spirited irish]

Agreed. But then they don’t want their God-given living souls. They want to be ‘conscious’ machines, and since that’s what they desire, they fantasize about evolution (energy) becoming conscious in order that they might say, “See, we are conscious machines!”

[Olog-hai]

If a Communist youth believes in God and goes to church, he fails to fulfill his duties. This means that he has not yet rid himself of religious superstitions and has not become a fully conscious person.

— Young Bolshevik, 1946

This is one thing you reminded me of. The Soviet machine trying to turn humans into machines.

Charlie Chaplin, in The Great Dictator, went after the Nazi regime for creating “machine men with machine minds”, but did he ever realize that all forms of Marxism led to that end?