Communism and liberal democracy shared a common modern secular language

Evidence

The conflict between liberal democracy and Marxist-Leninism was between ideologies which, despite their major differences, were both modern and secular and ostensibly shared ultimate goals of freedom, equality, and material well-being. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 387 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The Is/Ought dichotomization is representative of the conflict between the instrumentalist manifestations of reason and, to a great extent, the instrumentalist manifestations of the remnants of the Christian legacy of morality and virtue. This is precisely why the philosopher E. M. Anscombe rightly made the grave charge against Kant’s notion of duty that it is nothing but a Christian intrusion wearing an Enlightenment garb of reason. What Anscombe argued in philosophy, Carl Schmitt had famously argued in politics, that all central political concepts of modernity are essentially secularized forms of Christian concepts. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 184 (#complicates, via linked claim)

In the secular state, which officially has no religion at all, and in which there is no involvement of the state in religion and no involvement of religion in the state, Judaism theoretically has the same status of any other religion. There are not many secular states of that type in the world. Most of the countries of Western Europe have a state church, though at the present time this is not very meaningful. The communist states in Eastern Europe were in principle secular, but in reality their secularism had little effect. They were atheists, but not godless. They had no theology, but they did have a creed. They had no religion, but they certainly had a church, complete with scriptures and dogmas, prelates and hierarchs, orthodoxy, heresies and, above all, an inquisition. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 330 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The UDHR preamble’s religious language encoded Western-civilization claims against Islam and Communism.; Cold War rivals shared a common secular-modern ideological language — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 387; Communist Marxism functioned as a secular religion with Jewish roots — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 330 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Cold War rivals shared a common secular-modern ideological language #corroborates (1.00) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 387
• Modernity’s core political concepts are secularized Christian concepts #complicates (0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 184
• Communist states functioned as a secular religion with its own church #complicates (0.74) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 330