All 3 Uses of
communism
in
The Screwtape Letters
- I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men and from a dash of purely fashionable and literary communism.†
Chpt 10 *communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Hence the encouragement we have given to all those schemes of thought such as Creative Evolution, Scientific Humanism, or Communism, which fix men's affections on the Future, on the very core of temporality.†
Chpt 15
- The humans are often puzzled to understand the range of his opinions—why he is one day almost a Communist and the next not far from some kind of theocratic Fascism—one day a scholastic, and the next prepared to deny human reason altogether—one day immersed in politics, and, the day after, declaring that all states of us world are equally "under judgment".†
Chpt 16communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society