Christianity Capitalism And Communism A Historica Analysis

Author : William Montgomery Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330073810
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Communism and Christianism written by William Montgomery Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Communism and Christianism: Analyzed and Contrasted From the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View Religion is the opium of the people. The suppression of religion as the happiness of the people is the revindication of its real happiness. The invitation to abandon illusions regarding its situation is an invitation to abandon a situation which has need of illusions. Criticism of religion is, therefore, the germ of a criticism of the vale of tears, of which religion is the holy aspect. - Marx. Not only, indeed, is the struggle against religion intellectually useful, but it cannot conscientiously be avoided, for religion is used against the Socialist movement by the possessing class in every country. But to abolish religion is not to abolish exploitation, because only one of the enemy's guns will have been silenced. The workers have, above all, to dislodge the capitalist class from power. The religious question, and indeed all else, is secondary to this. The test of admission to a Socialist Party must be neither more nor less than acceptance of the following seven working principles and the policy of Socialism as a class movement: 1. Society, as at present constituted, is based upon the ownership of the means of living (land, factories, railways) by the capitalist or master class, and the consequent enslavement of the working class, by whose labor alone wealth is produced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.