Bible/Jesus: To share with the poor, "The love of money is the root of all evil", "It is harder for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven that for a cammel to pass through the eye of a needle.".
Karl Marx: "To everone according to their need, from everone according to their ability".
2006-12-20 08:48:24 · 15 answers · asked by Люди логики излишек 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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Certainly supporting your hypothesis. Both were humanists. Only Marx, albeit claiming and labelled as "materialist" was, in fact, naive. The history of the so called communist bloc has shown that communism cannot work, due to the human nature which is engrossed in greed, dishonesty, and corruption. The socialist bloc fell apart from within, through pilferage and corruption amongst its own peoples.
Marxism was a nice idea that would have worked with angels, not with human beings.
There is much more that Marxism and Christianity have in common. Few people know that one of the thought streams that inspired marxism was the German classical philosophy of Hegel, in particular, and which represented pure idealism. Marx borrowed Hegel's dialectic, and attempted to apply it to "materialism", the result of which was a humanistic type of idealism that was materialistic only in its name.
I think that Christ sympathised with Marx. Both were abused be people they loved, and both were crucified for their beliefs. Christ literally, and Marx ideologically. The West hated him because they blamed him for the military threat of the East, and the East respected him only in name, because they longed for the social structure present in the West, involving capitalism, inequality, and greed. Many on both sides talked about him, and criticised Marx, but very few, if anyone, actually read him. He was a smart man, a great thinker, and - a utopist.
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2006-12-20 09:13:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, since Marx rejected religion, I do not think so. Marx was an atheist who considered religion to be the "opiate of the masses".
However, you do raise a good question; what would Jesus be politically? A socialist? Jesus was very concerned about the poor and needy, and spent much of his ministry with them. However, he never advocated the State to care for them. He laid that burden upon individuals, their family, and the Church. He also advocated obeying the law, as opposed to the armed revolution of communism. Jesus saw all humans at every stage of life as being precious, so the far radical abortion position (as advocated by Prof Peter Singer) would certainly not be acceptable.
All in all, I think calling Jesus a socalist would be inaccurate.
2006-12-20 09:03:56 · answer #2 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Everything Jesus taught was inherently "socialist" in nature. Sell all you have and give it to the poor? Hmmmm...
However, it should be understood that for Marx socialism was simply an intermediary step on the way to communism. It was never intended to be an end unto itself.
2006-12-20 08:50:48 · answer #3 · answered by jaden404 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I've always been of the opinion that our current religious "leaders" were exactly the kind of men Jesus used to condemn, and the same kind of men who crucified him in the first place. Quoting Jesus is always a matter of convenience, as long as it fits into the right-wing agenda. I hope that occasionally our enlightened, modern-day Pharisees at least spare a glance at Matthew 6:5-6.
2006-12-20 08:57:36 · answer #4 · answered by link955 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus might have got on with Marx - Marx wouldn't have got on with Jesus. "Religion is the opiate of the people" remember.
However, you're going to have a lot of conservatives blustering about this - you just made the G man a communist! Ohhh dear...
2006-12-20 08:54:54 · answer #5 · answered by Mordent 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Marx reported "faith is the opiate of the persons" so he'd possibly no longer locate undemanding reason with Jesus. replaced into Jesus a "socialist"? hard to assert. He as quickly as reported "render onto Ceaser, etc."
2016-10-15 08:06:03 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe Jesus would have been able to get along with anyone. Since socialism is a political term and Jesus was apolitical by all accounts, I 'm not sure that question can be answered.
An interesting thought though.
2006-12-20 08:51:24 · answer #7 · answered by arkiemom 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Marx was an Atheist(not a good example for other atheists) You are not very educated. Jesus would be a liberal democrat or a liberal republican.
2006-12-20 08:54:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Communism, _in its true form_, is exactly what Jesus' apostles practiced.
Communism, _as practiced today_, is actually socialism and does not work in human cultures. The experiment in the old U.S.S.R. has proved that to those who can see.
2006-12-20 08:52:25 · answer #9 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yup, that'swhy the religious leaders hated him so much. Jesus actually said pay your taxes and not the synagogue
2006-12-20 09:06:42 · answer #10 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋