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The Politics of Time: Community, Gift and Liturgy

Community and Gift

Despite growing uneasiness about the economic and social consequences of the free market, today socialism, like religion, exhibits merely a spectral reality. It no longer seems either plausible or rational, and it has been consigned to the realm of faith. Yet, as with Christianity, socialism still haunts the West because nothing has emerged to replace it. Just as the story of a compassionate God who became a man was seen as the "final religion," so the hope of a universal fraternity based on sharing was seen as "the final politics." With its demise, all that seems to...