Week 5, Wednesday

The class discussion on Marxism today was engaging as it related to Castro's quote about Karl Marx falling in line with the Sermon on Mount. However, I still have some fundamental problems with understanding how a pro-Marxist view might relate to Christianity in a larger sense once you start looking at how Marxism restricts individual freedoms. I understand that capitalism can be flawed and lead to abuses of the working class...the rich can get richer and the poor get poorer. Yet, I don't believe it's the economic system that is flawed. It's the individuals in the system who succumb to power and greed that create these inequities.