(as I do on everything 
and maybe a somewhat unique perspective. I've considered myself a Marxist for 40+ years and I've also been active in a Zen based martial arts system for 30+ years, so that might be a unique pairing.
The biggest similiarities that I see between the two systems is that they are BOTH concerned with the here and now and not the here and after. The Bolsheviks during their growth to a mass party after the February Revolution didn't make any sort of "religious" or "anti-religious" test for party membership. That came in the 30s. All the early Bolsheviks did was to ask that you follow a materialistic theory of HISTORY and the class struggle as it applied to the current times. Similiarly, Zen isn't concerned with what happens after you die. It's concerned with how you live your life at this moment.
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