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Marx's atheology created the greatest idol of all, the idol of the omnipotent state. This idol appealed to men more than any other in history, because it made all morality relative and it gave ambitious men the means to become gods themselves. But it also appealed precisely because it was not an idol of stone or wood, but an idol of power: prayers to it could be answered, needs and greeds fulfilled. And because it indulged all of man's basest instincts while ever appealing to his noblest motives, it was exactly the sort of god man wanted to create, a god in his own image.

This is the one thing that doesn't ever seem to translate when talking to leftists. There is no encouraged morality, no need to apply oneself. There is no need to be socially responsible because the state will take care of the individual. This does not encourage work. Not at all.