Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Honest Fools and Dishonest Swindlers
Frederick Engels, "On the History of Early Christianity," in Marx and Engels, On Religion (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975; rpt. 1981), pp. 275-300 (at 280):
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And just as all those who have nothing to look forward to from the official world or have come to the end of their tether with it—opponents of inoculation, supporters of abstemiousness, vegetarians, anti-vivisectionists, nature-healers, free-community preachers whose communities have fallen to pieces, authors of new theories on the origin of the universe, unsuccessful or unfortunate inventors, victims of real or imaginary injustice who are termed "good-for-nothing pettifoggers" by all bureaucracy, honest fools and dishonest swindlers—all throng to the workers' parties in all countries—so it was with the first Christians.
