Socialism with megacult characteristics?

What is it with left wingers that think that megacults like Islam are actually left-wing? As a political absurdist (neither right nor left, nor centrist) this is one of the most absurd things I regularly encounter in academic, journalistic, and quasi-academic writing. To begin with any megacult doctrine that regards women as second class citizens (ALL of them) is not socialist. If it is then socialism can be equated with theistic megacultism as many of its non-religious critics are apt to allege (and between Winstanley's diggers and Gapon there's no shortage of historical precedent).

Then there's the hierarchy, dominionism, magical thinking, affinity for capitalism, gaudy shows of wealth, massive property ownership, and irrational fanaticism that's a feature of all theist megacults. An that's the tip of the iceberg. Pretty weird kind of socialism. I guess there's more than one kind of socialism (intentional understatement).

Socialism that seeks to be neutral (or else supportive) on the matter of the opiate of the masses has, I suggest, its failure built into it. I'm not sure how much I care about socialism over all (and its frequent religionism is one reason for this) but I can say that it's clear that if the struggle against capitalism empowers the arcane atavism of theist-megacults like Islam and their penchant for the proliferation of religious-schizophrenia, then the struggle will be ultimately a waste of time. Socialist 'doctrine' (whichever version it is) will - on social-psychological and psycho-social grounds - always end up subsumed under, and subservient to, theist-megacult dominionist doctrines and narratives. This much should be obvious to anyone whose been taking notice since - gee whiz - at least 1649? I'd have thought. Wrongly, apparently.

Megacultist-socialist supporters certainly can draw on a rich history of socialist (of some real variety) civilisational and social reform programs implemented by theist-megacult leaders. Take Libya for example:

So that's a win for the theist-megacults-are-go socialist types, right? Sure looks like it to me.

Unfortunately, although such things are never simple: in the competition between megacultist (religious) narratives and doctrines with their powerful influence over human psychology (usually in the form of religious schizophrenia) always trump pretty much any other doctrine or episteme of any kind - political, scientific, social, or secular.

Trump. That reminds me. Donald Trump waves a lot of bibles. He certainly isn't socialist, but such behaviour by the goon-tycoon shows that the dominance of theist-megacult narratives over all other political and social narratives is still somewhat of a sure thing. The present state of the United States congress - in the year 2022 no less - with its Pompeos, Cruzs, and Boeberts, and the present state of the United States Federal Judiciary with its installed cabal of fundamentalist Christofascist mental patients, should be enough to prove that beyond any reasonable doubt to any reasoning being.

Of course when the population of one's nation has few reasoning beings and is mostly comprised of religious-schizophrenics with imaginary friends and grandiose and paranoid delusions, then one's rather guaranteed more of the same outcomes due to the social, cultural, political, and narratological dynamics of what is essentially a kind of gigantic feedback loop of insane, delusional stupidity.

This is not to say that reforms like those that were implemented in Libya were not welcome, appropriate, and excellent - on paper anyway (and in fact in fact, in many cases):

Of course, with megacultist-secularism and megacultist-socialism, there's always a fly in the ointment. It's a great big blowfly called megacultism (religion):

Within the framework of theist-megacult values. Bugger. There goes the entire project. Dead before it started. Gaddafi's regime (from 1969) made things better and worse at the same time according to the same megacult-secularist-but-not-secularist formula:

For all of the good that Gaddafi did to, it was the usual Holy-rolly mess for at least half of the population:

And even those feminist activists who saw Gaddafi as significantly feminist (we can't say he didn't try) noticed a few other - fairly obvious - problems with the Islamic-megacult regime and the narratives under which the entire enterprise was ultimately subsumed:

There's that blowfly again. How did it get in? Damned things are so hard to get out of the room:

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