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Oh dude... Come on. Again, it's ok not to know much on a subject, but it's not to triple down on something you don't know about. Communism existed long before Marx, and is acknowledged as such by everyone. To continue my analogy from earlier, here is your sentence reworked to show how it comes...

...not really... Modernity is a very vague term in general that it can be applied to quite a lot, but being in opposition to Christianity and Islam (both of which exist in modernity and for which their adherents are the biggest religious block in the modern world) is definitely not one of them.

Not really. It's a well established and older philosophy than Marxism and wants the same general goal. Marxism just wants a state to achieve it, whilst Anarcho-Communism argues the state is antithetical to the end goal. If you have it, I would really recommend getting an audible book on the...

Ok a bit of a weird one (and almost certainly ASB as this covers a broad area that I don't pretend to know too well), but here goes. In this ATL, the anti-clerical elements of revolutionary France are heightened, along with more success in exporting this more radical agenda throughout europe...

Certainly. The reason I think it is valid as an option however is due to it's nature as an expression of the Bhakti movement, itself a pan-religous movement it could well have developed into considering itself a different thing in its own right.

Excluding religions that existed pre-Islam, I think there are a few good candidates under the right circumstances. Sikhism Fairly obvious one as it did quite well OTL despite bad circumstances. It would however need to build up a significant proselytising trend however to do well outside of...

I could see Zinoviev doing ok. Like most Bolsheviks, he was an opportunistic slime ball, but there is decent evidence of him being more able to compromise than most (iirc Lenin actually disliked him because of said willingness to compromise). Honestly though, I think any leader post Kronstadt is...

This could make for a fascinating development of Persia and the Russian Empire in general. First off, if the Wikipedia numbers are reliable, the 19th century population numbers of Russia put it at around 35 million, whilst Persia had a population of 6 million. Presuming no genocides or mass...

I think the best way to do this is to have Arianism survive as a major trend. Then you have the trinitarian schisms and the eventual Arianism schisms.

Personally I would err on the side of no unless you find a specific movement that is politically Thelema based. Otherwise we open the gates to just stating a religion and then people making their own assumptions about its politics.

I think there is something of a major misunderstanding of said far eastern religions. Namely that all 3 of them have a very strong layman/adept divide. To look at Christianity for example, your average peasant may not understand trinitarianism, but they are generally worshipping on the same...

To be clear, that isn’t why I listed Joseph Smith as not being a genuine prophet. The Book of Abraham scandal objectively proves that he wasn’t, but the look at his character instead addresses the question of his genuineness in terms of his self belief. Did he incorrectly think himself seriously...

Honestly it sounds like you are describing the modern day alchemist movement as it exists today.

It actually did emerge as a challenger. It stretched from Gaul to China ultimately, and could have been the religion of the Romans. Its best bet though would probably have been a Sassanid adoption. I appreciate the disclaimer, but you didn’t really do a good job of that. As others have pointed...

For the most part, there is a degree to which communism or communist related ideologies are inevitable. Not in the sense of a whiggish reading of history, but in the sense that its hard for it not to come about when systemic analysis of class is applied. That and it existing in numerous places...

Its not necessarily a realistic one, but its not quite ASB either; how about a funded Sabbatean migration to the Americas? Otl, the Rosicrusians supported a successor to the movement who was way more controversial. What if in this TL, they do not somewhat cave to Ottoman pressure and instead...

To be fair, the use of the term revolution in classical Marxist literature is multi-purpose. Although it can and was used for literal revolution, it is also meant in the economic sense. Marx, and a lot of what he wrote about in relation to Dialectical Materialism, was very aware of how long...

So a thing worth mentioning in a lot of rebellious movements or unorthodox islamic movements is the use of the term Zoroastrianism almost as a pejorative in a similar fashion to the christian world calling sects outside the norm as Manichaen. Now that isn’t to say that it wasn’t some...

I think a lot of the stereotypes about such a scenario (fascistic Russia, Communist Germany) are actually somewhat on the money. By and large, no Communist bogeyman and no Bolshevik tyranny takes away a lot of the important position defining points which held groups like the KPD back. The...

Honestly, hopelessly unpopular unless it massively compromises. I can’t remember who it was (it might have been Hawkins), but I remember reading an article in which a scientist was asked about Technocracy and Technocracy.inc, who responded something to the effect of “I spent so much hard work...