{"product_id":"communism-and-man","title":"Communism and Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy F. J. Sheed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCommunism and capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e each has its share of evils. Yet the evils of the one are not evidence for virtues of the other; they are evidence against man himself. Since these evils are certain “to show themselves in \u003ci\u003eany \u003c\/i\u003enew system made by men,” F. J. Sheed tasks himself with an examination of Communism, in light of what it presumes and propounds to be true about human nature and then in contrast with what the Catholic Church holds and teaches to be true about the same. Beginning at the ideology’s sources, Sheed presents Hegel’s dialectic and Marx’s development of it into the materialistic system of theory and practice and sweeping vision of power and revolution that is Communism, moves to a consideration of man as a social and political animal made in God’s own likeness, and then surveys the earthly lot and heavenly destiny of this creature with an eye to his insufficiency in the Catholic view, his imperative to “change” the world in the Marxist view, and his grasp of the implications of universal brotherhood as articulated by both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eOriginally published in 1938 and praised by Archbishop Fulton Sheen as “the most solid and yet popular refutation of Communism that has been done in English,” \u003ci\u003eCommunism and Man\u003c\/i\u003e offers an engaging analysis of Communism, one which—frankly and honestly construed—remains sadly, soberingly relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe do not understand any doctrine till we understand what its attraction is for its supporters.… Until we see why men are Communists, or Catholics, we do not understand Communism, or Catholicism. \u003c\/i\u003e(F. J. Sheed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eF. J. Sheed \u003c\/b\u003e(1897–1981) was a writer, publisher, and speaker, widely recognized as one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century. With his wife, Maisie Ward, he founded the publishing house of Sheed \u0026amp; Ward, which revived the Catholic literary movement and promoted innumerable intellectual, literary, and art­istic treasures of the Catholic Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685953393\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100040192367,"sku":"978-1685953393","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--10545.jpg?v=1781124934","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/communism-and-man","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}