A Time for Socialism
Communism failed. decisively. The Berlin Wall fell. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was torn asunder by the secession of numerous constituent republics. Reagan, Thatcher, and the free market system toppled Communism. China, while persisting in its repressive measures against religious and social dissidents, is rapidly accommodating itself to the global economy. This is the understandably universal metanarrative for the denouement of the struggle between capitalism and Communism in most nations. Applied Communism has been shown to operate with genocidal means to suppress internal dissent and as such is rightfully denigrated as no better than colonialism (whether practiced by capitalist democracies with imperial dreams or expansionist monarchies). Is a Marxist or socialist view of the world thereby discountable as entirely bereft of insight into the betterment of society or the role of applied faith for a Christian? This paper answers this question with a resounding “no.”