A history professor of mine said Communism is bastardized Catholicism.
Kick out God, substitute the government.
Kick out Christ, then deify a cult personality like Stalin or Mao. Demand the peasants worship him. Memorize & repeat his teachings.
Create multiple levels of a massive bureaucracy. Organize it like the church’s hierarchy of Cardinals, Bishops, & priests.
The Central Committee is essentially the Curia which tells the peasants what constitutes Correct Belief.
Internationalism: the teachings must be spread worldwide.
Aspire to attain heaven / utopia.
One seems to prepare us for the other.