
Catholicism, Communism, and the Ideal of Universal Recognition
Few contemporary Marxists, and even fewer Catholic theologians, have delved deeply into any likenesses in their worldviews on a theoretical level.
Few contemporary Marxists, and even fewer Catholic theologians, have delved deeply into any likenesses in their worldviews on a theoretical level.
Stalin, who was responsible for the torture and death of millions of Soviet citizens, has not retained a blood-red stain in the minds of the Left: on the contrary, activists do not hesitate to confess their love for him.
The Left uses the same strategy throughout Ibero-America. Their parties have permanent connections, share information, and operate as a single organization with the same homeland: communism. Leftist leaders are more loyal to the communist project than to their peoples.
Authors Le Carré and Koestler saw through the moral justifications of 20th-century communism. They understood that tallying up lives saved and lost is a bad way to do business, particularly when the “lives saved” column is skewed by those in power.
Graz’s audit office director warns that the city council may be disempowered, leaving leadership in the hands of a government commissary. New elections may be pending for 2023.
In four short years, the spirit of reform ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev tore down one of the most totalitarian constructs in modern human history and allowed for the healing of scars that had marred an entire continent for decades.
“A fellow Hungarian villager, Feri Augusztin, came to my father and told him to hand over his daughters, me and my sister Ella, to the Russians. This was the same person who earlier chased the Jews out of their homes. He informed the Russians that we were wealthy Hungarians and threatened Dad, saying that they would execute him unless he gave up his daughters.”
In 1989, with the fall of what Ronald Reagan rightly called the “evil empire,” this magnificent Church of martyrs emerged from the catacombs of communism, not liquidated, not re-educated, but forged like gold in the furnace of persecution.
It is an irony that the regimes of godless Communists and imperial thugs must preserve the corpses of their revolutionary leaders, made incorruptible by enormous amounts of money, for their subjects to worship.
Conservatives, of course, are aware of the urgent need to reduce the bureaucratic machine to a minimum. But in the quest to devolve governance to the local level, we must not forget the existential dignity of the penniless castaways generated by the oligarchic system.