“Throughout history, the attachment of even the humblest people to their freedom…has come as an unpleasant shock to condescending ideologues.”

Sillik, WHAT ? ? ?   lolololol — hahahaha. WHAT ? ? ? Socialism / socialists are condescending malefactors that need a lot of good - personal psychiatric help. Said malefactor's socialist style statist theocracy is based on condescending ideologues, dogmas and brutal atrocities. Socialism, manifesting the most unpleasant of shocks to the most humble of people is an extreme depiction of how accurate this quote is. 

Mike, Norwalk, is it possible to make a specified point here?  Will you at least admit that Socialism, is in fact an ideology?

Socialism is any of various system theories of social organization (communism, fascism, wokeism, herd mentality, etc. / ANTI - personal sovereignty, inalienable rights and liberty at nature’s law) in which religion, law, the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized ruling body that often plans and controls thought, life style and economy.

An ideology is a set of beliefs and dogmas that are shared by the members of a social group or that from the basis of a political, economic or other system.

A religion is: Religion is:a sacrosanct object of conscience (an ethic(s), a moral(s), a value (system) or an orientation of correctness / enlightenment) believed sufficiently conventional as to enable an attributable action. Religion is: “ real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to ⋯ our fellow men.” (Bouviers Law Dictionary)

Socialism, in and of itself is NOT an ideology or a religion but, a lifeless / inorganic philosophy only. When a person believes the dogma of socialism and joins others in a social group believing the same - then, and only then does socialism and ideology work together.

When socialism’s dogmas and otherwise philosophies are advanced (mentally, physically, or otherwise) on the basis of a sacrosanct object of conscience (an ethic(s), a moral(s), a value (system) or an orientation of correctness / enlightenment) believed sufficiently conventional as to enable an attributable action Socialism becomes a theocracy. When socialism is advanced (mentally, physically, or otherwise) on the basis of real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to our fellow men Socialism becomes a theocracy.