Weyl regarded marxism(absolute socialism) as a religious faith.
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His son was [[Nathaniel Weyl]].
His son was [[Nathaniel Weyl]].
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Weyl wrote in his best known work ''The New Democracy''(1912) that [[Marxism]] (which he called "absolute socialism") is "essentially religious."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3iESAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA52 The New Democracy], p. 52, "For, buttressed though it was by reasonings from science, absolute socialism remained in its appeal essentially religious."</ref> Despite being anti-Marxist, Weyl was a committed progressive.