True or False Socialism

Adolf Christian Stoecker (1835-1909) has been remembered as a court preacher in Berlin (1874-1890), the founder of the Christian Socialist Workers' Party in 1878, a conservative member of the Reichstag for most of the last thirty years of his life, an ardent nationalist, an early anti-Semitic voice, a prime mover in the Berlin City Mission, a prolific journalist, a powerful preacher and a leader in the freie Volkskirche movement. One significant aspect of this controversial political pastor that has been neglected is his critique of Marxist socialism.1 It should be noted that the significance of this critique is due as much to the fact that it was among the first to be formulated from within an explicitly Christian perspective as to the content of the critique itself.2

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• The Outlawed Party

  Richard N Hunt, Vernon L Lidtke•The American Historical Review•1967

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