As the historian Leszek Ko\u0142akowski observed, Marxism functioned for many as \u201cthe greatest fantasy of our century\u201d\u2014a promise that history itself would bring final justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
G.K. Chesterton captured the problem: Marx simply replaces one abstraction with another. But abstractions such as \u201chistorical inevitability\u201d can\u2019t produce justice on their own, because justice depends on the moral character of the persons who act within those systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deep question for our own moment is whether modern politics can resist the temptation to which Marxists surrender. Every generation is drawn to the hope that history itself will resolve its deepest conflicts. Marx gave that hope its most powerful modern expression by translating theological categories into the language of political economy. But as Eric Voegelin once warned, attempts to \u201cimmanentize the eschaton\u201d\u2014to force heaven into history\u2014have repeatedly produced political disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marx didn\u2019t abolish the Christian structure of redemption. He relocated it within history\u2014and that relocation continues to shape the political imagination of the modern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> Very interesting article. The central claim is that Karl Marx did not actually deny the redemption promised by religion, but rather relocated it in time. https:\/\/t.co\/5LjYMR5YiV<\/a><\/p>— BajaTed (@bajated) May 21, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>