Mauriac may have missed the illogic of his own thought. The power to torture, corrupt and befoul lies with the perpetrator, not the scapegoat. The unleashing of this power lies with the perpetrator. It is the perpetrator who has lost his human perspective and balance and sunk into a morass of irrationalism directed at his victim(s). This inbalance is delusional; not mysterious.

It seems unusual for a well-known Marxist Socialist leader and thinker like Antonio Gramsci to allude to socialism as a religion. Could you please provide a reference for this quotation from his writings? Thank you.