Early Christianity was the communism of its time, and communism remains the early Christianity of ours

"Erich Fromm’s work on early (revolutionary) Christianity as the ideology of the exploited poor and the oppressed, victims of a Roman Empire whose tentacles had spread further than any empire ever had before, remains revelatory and relevant. Fromm points out that the people who supported early Christianity “were the masses of the uneducated poor, the proletariat of Jerusalem, and the peasants in the country who, because of the increasing political and economic oppression…increasingly felt the urge to change [their] existing conditions.” Fromm continues: “From this stratum of the poor Christianity arose as a significant historical messianic-revolutionary movement.”

Fromm is correct. Indeed the revolutionary impulse of early Christianity is implicit in the Gospels. ...

Communism has already been tried and failed, you say? No, you’re wrong. It has been tried and succeeded. How else to explain the fear it still strikes, decades after its supposed death, in the hearts of a conscious ruling class whose primary purpose is to keep its working class in a state of profound and pristine false consciousness?

As revolutionary Christianity was in ancient times, before being co-opted by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the third century and turned from a spur towards human emancipation into a brake preventing it, communism was and remains the most potent weapon in the arsenal of the vast army of the doomed and the damned in ours.

Thus, no matter how much ‘they’ allow themselves to believe they have buried it, the idea of communism will live as long as the oppression that sustains it lives. The wall of false consciousness that lies between the idea and its manifestation has been breached before. Breaching it again is the challenge of our time."

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