 Hi, Iran. Hey. Couple of follow-ups from your exchange with Adam. Can you expand on the connection between Marxism and Christianity? Yeah. So think about Marxism as a system that requires you to sacrifice. Oh, think of Christianity, so with Christianity. Christianity has basically two fundamental premises. One is truth is a noble to the individual. It comes from some kind of mystical revelation. Happens to be God, but mystical revelation. And two, your life is not yours. Your life is to be sacrificed to a something, God, in this case, but your life is not yours. Christianity says fill in the blank with God and fill in the blank with God and fill in the blank with mystical revelation. You know what you know through mystical revelation. And you're supposed to sacrifice to God. Marxism basically takes that same basic idea, replaces God with the Poletarian. And you have the same deal. You don't have access to knowledge. You don't know anything. You're completely determined as an individual. Your fate is basically determined by forces outside of your control. All knowledge is attained by the Poletarian. By the way, because all knowledge is attained by the Poletarian, not by individuals, you need a mediator. You need somebody to take that knowledge and mediate between the Poletarian and the Platonic world of forms where this knowledge emanates from. And you can call that the dictator. That is a Mao, that is a Lenin, that is a Marx. They are the mediators. Or in Christianity, that's the Pope. The Pope is a mediator. Your priest is a mediator. He gets the truth and he reveals it to you. And then, of course, sacrifice. You as an individual don't matter. But you're not supposed to sacrifice to God. God doesn't exist. You're supposed to sacrifice to what does exist, which is the Poletarian, the masses of mankind who matter. Everybody else doesn't matter. Can I assume that the Poletariat comes to know things mystically? Or does Marxism have some view on how the Poletarian gains the knowledge that individual can't? No view of how the Poletarian gets that. Basically, they need a leader. And ultimately, Marx says in his Utopia, he never explains how you get to the Utopian. It doesn't really explain how the Utopia works. Then everybody does what they want. There is no dictator. It's like an anarchist, what do you call it? Norm Chomsky's kind of anarchy. It just exists. And he never explains it exactly. How it exists, how it functions. And he never explains how you get there. But there is a period of dictatorship that has to happen. Because maybe in this Utopia, everybody gets the knowledge directly. I don't know. But in the intermediate period, you definitely need a dictator to intermediate between the place where truth lies and the Poletarian. Remember, all of these philosophies are fundamentally platonic. They're all Plato's cave. It's all, there's a world of forms up there where the truth resides. And then it's just a question of if you can access it. And that's Christianity is very platonic in that sense. Neoplatonic, they call it, but it's platonic. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com. I go to Patreon, subscribe to our locals, and just making an appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content. And of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.