Guest Billy I recall getting into a protracted argument with an R.S.L. member back in the eighties.
He had taken great offence at my suggestion that Leninism was itself,to all intents & purposes, a surrogate religion.
I was subjected to a tediously long & ill-tempered itemisation of the Materialistic & empirical bases of Marxist thought which concluded with him informing me that "You've lost your FAITH in the Working Class!"
Since which time I have tended to the view that Dialectical Materialism is the opiate of the Marxists.