Communism and Christianism

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Brown William Montgomery. Communism and Christianism

DEDICATION

PROLEGOMENA1

THE INTERNATIONAL PARTY

PART I. Communism: The Naturalistic This-worldly Gospel for the Coming Age of Classless Equality and Economic Freedom – An Open Letter to a Brother Bishop and a Christian Socialist Comrade

FOREWORD3

COMMUNISM: THE NATURALISTIC THIS-WORLDLY GOSPEL FOR THE COMING AGE OF CLASSLESS EQUALITY AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM

THE GRAND MARCH

PART II. Christianism: A Supernaturalistic Other-worldly Gospel for the Passing Age of Class Inequality and Economic Slavery – An Open Letter to a Christian Theologian and Brother Churchman

FOREWORD7

CHRISTIANISM: A SUPERNATURALISTIC OTHER-WORLDLY GOSPEL FOR THE PASSING AGE OF CLASS INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC SLAVERY

Appendix

I. SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM

II. GOD AND IMMORTALITY

III. MYTHICAL CHARACTER OF OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT PERSONAGES

IV. WOULD SOCIALISM CHANGE HUMAN NATURE?

V. WHAT WILL BE THE FORM OF THE WORKERS' STATE

VI. WITHDRAWAL OF PRIZE OFFER

VII. AFTERWORD

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Not only, indeed, is the struggle against religion intellectually useful, but it cannot conscientiously be avoided, for religion is used against the Socialist movement by the possessing class in every country.

But to abolish religion is not to abolish exploitation, because only one of the enemy's guns will have been silenced. The workers have, above all, to dislodge the capitalist class from power. The religious question, and indeed all else, is secondary to this.

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In what I say here and in some other places about war being essentially evil, the wars referred to are those by which the world has been cursed through all the ages – wars between different groups of owners with conflicting interests, not the war between owners and workers which is now on. This war will bless, not curse, the world, because it is for the emancipation of the slave class, not for the enrichment of one group of the masters at the expense of another group, at the cost of increased misery to all the slaves on both sides.

If there is any truth in the representation that real religion and real politics alike consist in desiring and endeavoring to make terrestrial life (there is no celestial life of which aught is known) long and happy, the advocate of war is the worst of heretics against Christianism and the worst of traitors against Americanism.

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