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D. Communism
Some
sects arising from Protestantism transposed their religious tendencies directly
to the political field, thus preparing the way for the republican spirit. In
the seventeenth century, Saint Francis de Sales warned the Duke of Savoy
against these republican tendencies. 4 Other sects
went even further, adopting principles that, if not communist in the
full sense of the word today, were at least precommunist.
Out
of the French Revolution came the communist movement of Babeuf. Later, the
nineteenth-century schools of utopian communism and the so-called scientific
communism of Marx burst forth from the increasingly ardent spirit of the Revolution.
And
what could be more logical? The normal fruit of deism is atheism. Sensuality,
revolting against the fragile obstacles of divorce, tends of itself toward free
love. Pride, enemy of all superiority, finally had to attack the last inequality,
that of wealth. Drunk with dreams of a
one-world republic, of the suppression of all ecclesiastical or civil
authority, of the abolition of any Church, and of the abolition of the State
itself after a transitional dictatorship of the workers, the revolutionary
process now brings us the twentieth-century neobarbarian, its most recent and
extreme product.
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