By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing, Nov. 10, 2023
David Carlin is a retired professor of sociology and philosophy at the Community College of Rhode Island, and the author of The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America, Three Sexual Revolutions: Catholic, Protestant, Atheist, and most recently Atheistic Humanism, the Democratic Party, and the Catholic Church.
More than a hundred years ago, Communist revolutionaries, clever Marxist-Leninists in particular, explained their theory of history and morality in a few easy-to-understand propositions.
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The world is divided into two great parties, capitalists and workers. (There are some third parties as well, but these aren’t really important.)
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Capitalists are bad in that they are oppressors and exploiters. Workers are good in that they are victims of oppression and exploitation. …