Kirosocialist Party: Difference between revisions

| successor = [[New Deal Alliance]]

During single-party rule every accredited university was required to have a Department of Marxism or (later) Department of Socialist Sciences, which was responsible for teaching classical Marxist texts and key Kirosocialist writings, and for conditioning students to apply Marxist and Kirosocialist theoretical lenses to other fields of study. Basic courses in Marxism were required for all undergraduate students. Only a handful of such academic departments remain.  

The attitude of the Party towards religion and its approach to religious policy fluctuated over time. The first generation of the Party's membership was predominantly irreligious, including many cadre with expressly nontheistic worldviews (especially among those who had belonged to the Communist Party and the more orthodox Marxist tendency). Kirsok never regulated the private beliefs of its members, though for a brief period in its early history members could not be enrolled members or active communicants of religious congregations. This was later moderated so that only clerics and ministers were forbidden to join the Party. While the party membership would remain markedly more secular than the general population throughout the Party's existence, the difference gradually narrowed over time. Writing in [Midlate Kirsok Year],  John Q. Preacher, a Discipular minister involved with the Party's auxilliary groups in [[Elegia]], recorded his impression that the old line of {{wp|Marxist humanists}} were by then rare in the Party, and that most attendees at the Elegia Party Congress could be described as {{wp|spiritual but not religious}}, passive practitioners of Coscivian religious traditions, or semi-practicing Christians. [[Féraluir Sekerin]], a Party member who would later lead the [[New Deal Alliance|NDA]], described the general religious attitude of the old Party as a "vague agnostic Deism", to which he himself adhered before converting to Catholicism in [YEAR].