In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
—Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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At least it’s an ethos…
I’ll always remember a brilliant ad-lib by Dennis Miller during a SNL news bit where some contraption failed to operate as planned, “well, even communism works in theory…”