Chapter I INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNIST ESCHATOLOGY
PART ONE 22
HISTORICAL SECTION 22
Chapter II THE MARXIST LENINIST PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY 23
Chapter III THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF MARXISM 32
Chapter IV THE ADVENT OF MARXIST LENINIST REVOLUTIONISM 54
Chapter V LENIN’S IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIALISM 72
Chapter VI THE POST-LENINISTIC HISTORY OF COMMUNISM 83
FOREWORD
In a very moving passage, St. Paul declares, “For we are saved by hope” (Rom. 8:24). As John Murray has pointed out, this can be better rendered, “For in hope were we saved.” It meant, Murray makes clear, that, “In hope” refers to the fact that the salvation bestowed in the past, the salvation now in possession, is characterized by hope. Hope is an ingredient inseparable from the salvation possessed; in that sense it is salvation conditioned by and oriented to hope. This is simply to say that salvation can never be divorced from the outlook and outreach which hope implies. The salvation now in possession is incomplete, and this is reflected in the consciousness of the believer in the expectancy of hope directed to the adoption, the redemption of the body.*