Three cheers for socialism - Christian love and political practice

Most of what's said in the first paragraphs is probably familiar to most Tildes users by this point, but I found this a nice read nonetheless. I'm also always interested in discussions surrounding the influence of Christianity on Socialist or Socialist-adjacent thought. Much of the discourse surrounding Leftist thought is dominated by the heritage of the incredibly anti-religious revolutions so sometimes it feels like people conflate the two even though they aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

I also kind of like the introductory paragraph:

Persons of a reflective bent all too often underestimate the enormous strength that truly abysmal ignorance can bring. Knowledge is power, of course, but—measured by a purely Darwinian calculus—too much knowledge can be a dangerous weakness. At the level of the social phenotype (so to speak), the qualities often most conducive to survival are prejudice, simplemindedness, blind loyalty, and a militant want of curiosity. These are the virtues that fortify us against doubt or fatal hesitation in moments of crisis. Subtlety and imagination, by contrast, often enfeeble the will; ambiguities dull the instincts. So while it is true that American political thought in the main encompasses a ludicrously minuscule range of live options and consists principally in slogans rather than ideas, this is not necessarily a defect. In a nation’s struggle to endure and thrive, unthinking obduracy can be a precious advantage.