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I agree with @jamestalarico James Talarico’s critique of some of Trump’s policies listed in the first section (post). However, after reading the second through fourth sections introduced by @xiaojingcanxue, I faintly sense the specter of communism. History has proven time and again that it is precisely those seemingly comforting notions of “universal love” that often breed countless tragedies of tyranny. The fundamental force driving human society forward is not “love” but “self-interest.” On X (formerly Twitter), most people might not connect Christianity with communist thought. Yet before Marxism emerged, the utopian socialism of the early nineteenth century, such as the theories of Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, and Étienne Cabet, was steeped in Christian ethics, and its core tenets all stressed universal love and equality. Before Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels founded the Communist League, its predecessor was a German workers’ organization called the League of the Just (Bund der Gerechten). Initially led by Christian communists such as Wilhelm Weitling, the league adopted as its primary slogan “All men are brothers,” a phrase rooted in Christian ethics. Only after Marx and Engels reorganized the league and replaced that slogan with “Workers of the world, unite!” was the shift from “Christian moral utopianism” to “scientific socialism” complete. Furthermore, in his late work On the History of Early Christianity, Engels explicitly argued that early Christianity bore striking similarities to the modern working-class movement in its social psychology and class character. He contended that early Christianity was essentially a movement of oppressed people seeking liberation from Roman servitude. The only difference, he said, is that believers back then placed their hopes in the afterlife, whereas modern communism turns those hopes into political practice in this world.

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