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"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."

Christian Socialism, sometimes called ChristSoc, is an File:Leftunity.png economically left-wing and culturally variable ideology, inhabiting either the bottom of the AuthLeft or the top of the LibLeft quadrant. He believes a socialist society is endorsed by the Holy Bible and the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. He condemns Capitalism for being idolatrous and for promoting the Deadly Sin of greed, among other sins.

Variants

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File:ChristLeft.png Christian Left

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File:Christcom.png Christian Communism

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Christian Communism is an ideology mixing File:Christy.png Christianity with communism. As a theological view, it states that teachings of File:Jesus.png Jesus are compatible with Marxist theory. Historians generally agree that in first Christian communities there existed a common ownership of property. That is confirmed by the Bible. Yet, its important to notice that said communities were much older than File:Karl Marx.png Marxism and lacked concept of class struggle.

Some see Thomas More's "Utopia" to be an example of Christian Communism, as it describes ideal society as being administrated through application of reason and based on common ownership of property.

Many communists, including File:Centmarxf.png Karl Kautsky, argued that Bible teaches communism and apostles practiced it. Famous theorists of Christian Communism in Western Europe include: Étienne Cabet, Eugene Debs, Wilhelm Weitling and Pehr Götrek. Weitling was leader of League of the Just while Götrek was famous for translating The Communist Manifesto into Swedish. In his translation, he have changed "Workers of the world, unite!" into "Folkets röst, guds röst!" meaning "People's voice is God's voice".

In 20th century, Christian Communists became part of wider communist movement - but were marginalized later and Christianity was generally persecuted by newly-created revolutionary government. However, it slightly changed after Second World War as Christian Communists took part in few File:Antifa.png anti-fascist movements - orthodox priest File:Christcom.png Vlada Zečević was member of File:LCY.png League of Communists of Yugoslavia and File:Cball-Yugoslavia.png the Yugoslav Partisans, File:Groza.png Petru Groza was Prime Minister of File:Cball-SRRomania.png communist Romania. In File:Cball-Poland-old.png People's Republic of Poland, there existed few pro-government, Catholic organisations, such as: PAX Association, "Znak" and few more.File:Castro.png Fidel Castro saw Christianity as fully compatible with communism, stating that "Christ chose the fishermen because he was a communist." and that there is "great coincidence between Christianity's objectives and the ones we Communists seek, between the Christian teachings of humility, austerity, selflessness, and loving thy neighbour and what we might call the content of a revolutionary's life and behaviour."

Today, leader of CPRF party, File:Zyu.png Gennady Zyuganov sees Christ as first communist and states that Bible can be read through a socialist perspective.

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The German Peasant War was a large-scale peasant uprising that broke out in 1524. At the beginning, it was a local peasant uprising and later extended to most of the southern regions (southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland). The peasants raised clear requirements for the first time by proposing the Twelve Clauses Uprising. In 1525, the uprising was suppressed in Schwaben, Franken, Alsace and Turingen. The 1526 uprising was extinguished in Saxony and Tyrol. Similar uprisings had broken out in Britain and Switzerland before the peasant uprising broke out.

File:MLK Jr.png Martin Luther Kingism

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MLKism is the ideology of African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. He is considered by many to be the leading figure of the Black Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s in the United States, being most known for his guiding principles of civil disobedience and nonviolence in resisting injustice. He was deeply religious, having been a Baptist minister for a majority of his adult life, and citing the Bible frequently in his speeches on racial equality. He was also, to quote himself, "more socialistic in [his] economic theory than capitalistic. And yet [he is] not so opposed to capitalism that [he has] failed to see its relative merits.

File:Münster rebellion.png Münster Rebellion File:Munster2.png

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The File:Münster rebellion.png Münster Rebellion took place after the German Peasants' War, in which they attempted an File:ProtTheo.png Anabaptist Christian Theocracy between 1532 (in fact 1534) and 1535 in the File:Cball-HRE.pngHoly Roman Empire. The foundations of the community believed that the Bible claimed File:Communalist.png absolute equality and distribution of all goods. In File:Münster rebellion.png Münster, several men were soon baptized and others were apparently rebaptized with the support of Bernhard Rothmann. The rebellion ended in 1535, after being taken over by the besiegers of the File:Cball-HRE.png Holy Roman Empire, in which all the leaders were tortured and executed and their bodies exposed in public in cages.


History

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File:Cball-Barbados.png In Barbados File:PdP-Barbados.png

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In Barbados Christian Socialism is based on opposition leader, former MP and Bishop Joseph Atherley and the party he founded: People's Party for Democracy and Development (PdP), whose slogan is "God, Growth and Peace". His ideas are based on laborism, Christian Social Democracy and a left-wing democracy. Christian leftism is evident when Atherley announced the formation of the PdP in 2018, stating that the party would be "socialist and Christian".[9]

Atherley was the only member of the chamber for the PdP and made an alliance with the United Progressive Party, forming the electoral alliance Party of the Alliance for Progress, adopting the ideology of both parties, being Progressivism and Christian Democratic Socialism. The Alliance is from the opposition and received 2.81% taking 3rd place and its slogan is "Download APP".

In Italy File:Popolar.png

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File:Popolar.png Cronache Sociali

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Cronache Sociali {Social Chronicles) was Catholic newspaper in Italy. It was published between 1947 and 1951. Chronciles focused mainly on the economic issues.

The newspaper was voice of more left faction within File:Popolar.png Democrazia Cristiana (DC) party. Newspaper propagated ideas known as File:IntegDem.png Integral Democracy, centred around Christian solidarity of the state, in the society and economy.

File:Cball-Nicaragua.png In Nicaragua File:Sandinism.png

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File:Sandinismo flag.svg
Flag of Sandinismo

In Nicaragua, Christian Socialism had influence in the form of ideology also known as File:Sandinism.png Sandinismo, based on the revolutionary File:Sandino.png Augusto César Sandino and espoused by the Sandinista National Liberation Front.

File:Sandino.png Augusto César Sandino was a Nicaraguan revolutionary who from 1927 to 1933 was the leader of an armed rebellion against the US occupation of Nicaragua. Despite being assassinated, Sandino became an anti-imperialist icon.

In 1961, Nicaragua was under the dictatorship of the Somoza Family, which was backed by the United States, so, inspired by Sandino's asañas, the socialist politician Carlos Fonseca founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a guerrilla organization from socialist court that, after waging a violent revolution, managed to overthrow the Somoza Family and establish a socialist government.

Following this, the Sandinistas clashed with anti-communist insurgent groups called "Contras" in a civil war that lasted until 1990, when the opposition defeated the Sandinistas in pre-presidential elections.

After a long time without being in power, the Sandinistas would win the 2006 presidential elections with File:Ortega.png Daniel Ortega, who over time would perpetuate himself in power. Currently the Sandinistas control almost the entire national assembly. Under Ortega, the Sandinista government has moved away from the left and become more authoritarian.

File:Cball-Poland-old.png In Poland File:ChristSocdem-alt.png File:Christcom.png

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File:ChristSocdem-alt.png National Workers' Party

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File:ChristSocdem-alt.png National Workers' Party (NPR) was File:ChristLeft.png Christian Left, File:Left Reformism.png reformist and File:Statist.png statist party in File:Cball-Poland-old.png Second Polish Republic.

It was founded in 1920, by merger of National Workers' Union (from Russian partition) and National Party of Workers (from German partition). Its main politicians were: Karol Popiel, Ludwik Waszkiewicz and Adam Chądzyński. NPR's electoral bastions were former territories of Prussia - Pomerania, Upper Silesia and Greater Poland.

Although NPR party was focused on File:SyndieSam.png working class it wasn't a socialist party. Instead, it preferred File:Corptism.png solidarism and class collaboration. It was a File:Leftnat.png left-wing nationalist party, seeing humanity as divided by national identifies first with class divisions on second place.

Since its creation, NPR was unstable due to internal divisions - there was pro-Piłsudski left (for example: Antoni Ciszak), Christian Democratic right (represented by, among others, Stanisław Wachowiak) and "national-socialist" faction (led by Kazimierz Dagnan)[10]. That is why party entered different political alliances: it cooperated with File:Witos.pngPSL, then joined File:Centrolew.png Centrolew coalition, later tried to create coalition of File:Synd.png workers' parties, to finally merge with File:Cdem.png Christian Democracy in 1937. After May Coup the party was divided between these who wanted to cooperate with Front Morges, ones preferring to join File:Szczerbiec.png Camp of the Great Poland and these who wished to support File:Sanacja.png Sanation. The last ones defected from NPR to create pro-government File:Leftnat.png NPR-Lewica (NPR-Left).

File:Christcom.png PAX Association

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PAX Association was created in 1947, by File:BPiasecki.png Bolesław Piasecki. Being former leader of File:PolFal.png RNR-Falanga, he fought against both File:Nazi.png Germans and Soviets. After being imprisoned by File:NKVD.png NKVD in Lublin. After interrogation by File:Serov.png Ivan Serov, he agreed to cooperate with communist authorities.

Newly-created association fully supported the Stalinist regime, including even infamous show trial of Kraków Curia (which resulted in death penalties for priests opposing the communist government). Moreover, it voiced its support for trial and imprisonment of influential File:Anticommunism.png anti-communist clergymen, like Bishop Czesław Kaczmarek and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. Piasecki and PAX also supported and helped to organize so-called "priests-patriots" movement[11], made of priests who collaborated with communist regime. After 1956 PAX (together with other pro-government organisations) supported leniency for Polish anti-communist movement. In 1982, one year after File:StratoHelm.png Martial Law was introduced in Poland, PAX joined Patriotic Movement of National Rebirth (PRON) - popular front created to gather all organisations supporting the government.

PAX had its daily called "Słowo Powszechne". It ceased to exist in 1993. The association also had representatives in Sejm. In 1969, for example, it won 5 seats. Famous members of PAX include: Jan Dobraczyński (politician of interwar File:EndecjaPix.png Endecja, File:Catheo.png Catholic publicist and File:Strato.png general in post-war army), Janusz Zabłocki (soldier of Home Army, journalist, lawyer and politician)[12] and Tadeusz Mazowiecki[13] (first non-communist Prime Minister of Poland since the creation of PRL).

Association's influence started to decrease as fall of communism progressed in Poland. PAX still exists today, but lost its influence since the end of PRL era.

Personality

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ChristSoc is a devout follower of Christianity who deeply empathizes with his fellow ideologies. He preaches the biblical passages that endorse more progressive messages over the ones that his conservative peers single out. He is often seen volunteering for good causes and doing political advocacy.

How to Draw

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File:Christsoc flag.svg
Flag of Christian Socialism

Drawing ChristSoc is fairly simple:

  1. Draw a ball
  2. Fill the ball with red berry.
  3. Draw 4 white L's shaped into a Christian cross in the middle of the ball.
  4. Add the eyes and you're done!
Color NameHEXRGB
 Red berry#990000rgb(153, 0, 0)
 White#FFFFFFrgb(255, 255, 255)


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  1. ↑ While PAX was founded as Catholic organisation, it supported every communist government through PRL era, including all anti-Catholic actions.
  2. ↑ "According to Norman Davies PAX was an NKVD front organisation, set up to win over Polish Catholics to communism, and to break their links to the Vatican" Wikipedia
  3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_women_in_the_Nicaraguan_Revolution
  4. ↑ https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/il-dossettismo-dinamismi-prospettive-e-damnatio-memoriae-di-un-esperienza-politica-e-culturale_(Cristiani-d'Italia)/
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ↑ https://www.theroot.com/a-close-alliance-between-mlk-and-nelson-rockefeller-rev-1790858451
  7. ↑ despite being a Christian, he tried to represent himself as an ally of the Muslim community
  8. ↑ He is running for president.
  9. ↑ 1
  10. ↑ Although it was nationalist and somewhat anti-semitic, it was closer to National Syndicalism than to actual Nazism.
  11. ↑ "Priests-patriots" in Encyklopedia PWN (in Polish)
  12. ↑ Left in 1955, but took part in many government-controlled, Catholic organisations.
  13. ↑ Left in 1955.
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