[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [marxmail] The Institute for Christian Socialism Wants to Bring Left Politics to American Christianity

[C. G. Estabrook]

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> From: "Charles Keener via groups.io" <ckeener20005=aol.com at groups.io>
> Subject: [marxmail] The Institute for Christian Socialism Wants to Bring Left Politics to American Christianity
> Date: July 4, 2022 at 6:23:56 PM CDT
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> This intersection of faith and politics appeals to me.
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> Charles
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> The Institute for Christian Socialism Wants to Bring Left Politics to American Christianity (jacobin.com) <https://jacobin.com/2022/07/institute-christian-socialism-base-communities-left-religion>
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> Institute for Christian Socialism - Building the Christian Left <https://christiansocialism.com/>
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> The Institute for Christian Socialism is trying to build left-wing solidarity within religious communities. In their eyes, an awareness of and commitment to socialism is inherent to the Gospel.
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> In the twenty-first century, the religious right has something close to a stranglehold on public-facing Christianity. From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, white Evangelicals have had a long and fruitful love affair with the Republican Party. Meanwhile, the Federalist Society has placed six conservative Catholic judges on the Supreme Court. Today, Christianity as a political project seems to belong to right-wing reactionaries. Left-wing Christians exist, yet it is difficult to imagine what an American mass movement of them would even look like.
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> The Institute for Christian Socialism (ICS), founded in 2019, is trying to change that.
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> ICS follows the “socialism of the gospels,” claiming that the teachings of Jesus are irreconcilable with capitalism. Inspired by the many liberatory traditions influenced by Christian teachings — the communitarian societies of the Catholic Worker movement of the 1930s; the Latin American base communities that radicalized rural populations in the 1970s and 1980s; and the nonconformist Diggers, who built early agrarian socialist communities in the seventeeth century — ICS welds Christian faith with socialist organizing. It teaches that faith in the gospel must include a commitment to overturning capitalism and building a better world.
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