No less an authority than Murray N. Rothbard has detailed its sinister lineage in five articles of interest to LRC readers: Karl Marx as Religious Eschatologist, Messianic Communism in the Protestant Reformation, The Menace of the Religious Left, Saint Hillary and the Religious Left, and Origins of the Welfare State in America. Those seeking more authoritative scholarly background studies on this topic should consult this Amazon book list: Utopian Nightmares and Gnostic Political Religions,
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