An interesting look into where Socialism, Communism and Kabbalah connect.
"Among the few who know of Rav Yehuda Ashlag (1885–1954), his name is associated with esoteric Jewish thought or with the pop Kabbalah movements led by his second generation students. Some may know that he translated the central work of Jewish mysticism, the Zohar, into modern Hebrew in the early 50s, or have studied his brilliant commentary on it, Perush al HaSulaam (The Ladder).
Few think of him as a political pamphleteer or a utopian who proposed models for a socialist society. Yet he was those things too, and a look at what he wrote reveals him to be one of the most interesting Orthodox Jewish thinkers of all time. Rabbi Ashlag divided his time between utopian political dreams and explaining how the human being calls down higher levels of soul existing in the infinite thought of God, or how the upper worlds nest within each other like russian dolls."
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