" (2) Bolshevism is understood in religious terms. “What believers of traditional religions ascribe to God … Bolsheviks ascribe to the allegedly scientific laws of social development.” (This quid pro quo of God and historical law has by now apparently convinced everybody who believes that neither the existence of God nor that of historical laws can be demonstrated scientifically.) "

― Hannah Arendt , Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism