Some evangelicals are reinventing socialism, not knowing about or too afraid to make the links to traditional socialism – which in turn had at least some Christian roots.
The Communist League, which commissioned Marx and Engels to write the Communist Manifesto, began as a Christian organization whose goal was: “the establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth, based on the ideals of love of one’s neighbor, equality and justice.”
It’s only in the U.S. where ignorance and fear of socialism is so widespread, that the two appear to be in conflict, unlike Europe where one can be a Christian socialist without it being problematic.
