Series: Studies in Critical Research on Religion

In Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition, Roland Boer presents key moments in the 2,000-year tradition of Christian communism. Defined by the two features of alternative communal practice and occasional revolutionary action, Christian communism is predicated on profound criticism of the way of the world. The book begins with Karl Kautsky—the leading thinker of second-generation Marxism—and his oft-ignored identification...