When did I ever say that I was a Trotskyist? I never did. Back in the day I agreed with Michael Harrington.
The first socialist book I read that I liked was
Christianity and the Social Crisis, by Walter Rauschenbusch. Rauschenbusch was a Christian Socialist.
Karl Marx mentioned Christian Socialism in The Communist Manifesto in order to condemn it:
"As the parson has ever gone hand in hand with the landlord, so has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism."
"Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat."
PoliticalChic, you are disappointing me. Initially I thought you had the intelligence to make distinctions.
"Karl Marx mentioned Christian Socialism in The Communist Manifesto in order to condemn it:"
You really need a better education.
The Left, Communists, Nazis, Democrats, follow what Karl Marx preached.
More that interesting is that Marx worshipped the Devil.
Marx wrote poetry, and in one, "The Fiddler," we find
"Why do I fiddle? Or the wild waves roar?
That they might pound the rocky shore,
That eye be blinded, that bosom swell,
That Soul's cry carry down to Hell."
"Fiddler, with scorn you rend your heart.
A radiant God lent you your art,
To dazzle with waves of melody,
To soar to the star-dance in the sky."
"How so! I plunge, plunge without fail
My blood-black sabre into your soul.
That art God neither wants nor wists,
It leaps to the brain from Hell's black mists.
"Till heart's bewitched, till senses reel:
With Satan I have struck my deal.
He chalks the signs, beats time for me,
I play the death march fast and free.
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There is no way to separate communism, socialism, Progressivism, the Democrat Party, and, therefore, no way to ignore their ties to Satan.
It is of interest that the godfather, maybe even the god, of the above, Karl Marx, had a fascination with Satan. Clearly, Marx believed in the existence of Satan.
Which party did you say you support?