I tried posting this on your Year Zero essay, on the wordpress account, but it wasn't loading, so just adding it here, not trying to change the subject;

Actually it goes back a bit further than Marx. Monotheism was the original globalism. The Ancients were not ignorant of monotheism, but as there was no separation of culture and civics, it equated with authoritarianism. As in one god, one ruler. Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic societies, which were the Ancients version of multiculturalism, as tribal societies evolved into city states and multiethnic empires. Constantine adopted Christianity as Rome fully solidified into an Empire.
Vestiges of pantheism remain, as the Christian Trinity, which was a version of the Greek year gods, an analogy for regeneration, past, present and future, father son, holy ghost. As was Jesus’ death and resurrection. Though as the eternal institution, the Catholic church did its best to obscure this, leaving Luther to try pushing the reset button, as Jesus had tried to do with Judaism. When the West went back to more populist forms of government, it required a separation of church and state, culture and civics. Something which hasn’t happened with Islam and increasingly with Israel.
The logical fallacy of monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. Consciousness seeking knowledge, than any form or brand of it. While the father figure lawgiver makes a useful narrative device for instilling respect for the culture and authority, it conflates the ideal, which is aspirational, with the absolute, which is elemental. Consider that all the political movements which sought to replace monotheism and its political expression of monarchy, all follow the same pattern, of proclaiming their ideals to be absolute.
The reality is more a dichotomy of desire driving life, while judgement steers it. The heart and the head. Youth and age, liberal and conservative. Though as we have this paradigm of monist idealism, each side see themselves as the one true path and the other side as fools, or evil. Nature is cyclical, while people are linear.