Man and Marxism: Religion and the Communist Retreat (Christian Vision)

Most of the chapters that comprise this volume were first presented at the Hillsdale College Center for Constructive Alternatives on-campus seminar, "Faith and Freedom: Religion in a Post-Communist World," from September 16-20, 1990, or in the College's Shavano Institute for National Leadership program, "Faith and the Free Market," held in Orange, California, the Same fall. I have distributes these chapters under three topical loci. The first brings Marxism under careful theological scrutiny and identifies some of the causes and instances of its recent unprecedented retreat. The second describes that retreat and details the role played in it by religion. The third registers a dissent. It says, in effect, that political prospects are even better than the previous analyses have demonstrated, and that, despite their somewhat heartening account of Marxist construction, they are too pessimistic