| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - For Service, communism is a religion, an emancipatory ???secular credo??? complete with millenarian overtones (apocalypse followed by paradise), an emphasis on scriptural exegesis (each communist party, Service writes, ???was a synod of hair-splitting political discussion???) and a theory of historical inevitability that, from the outside, looks suspiciously like a doctrine of predestination.
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