Volume 27, Number 17 · November 6, 1980
Revolution and Religion
By Peter Singer
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
by James H. Billington
Basic Books, 677 pp., $25.00
We all know the parallels, popularized in The God That Failed and so many other places, between Marxism and religion. Primitive communism represents the lost Eden, capitalism the present vale of tears, Marx is the prophet and his writings the sacred texts, while communism, of course, is heaven on earth.
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