"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.” said Proudhon - one of the most famous French anarchists. Proudhon manages to catch my attention with this quote since it can be easily applied to modern day world. Although many countries are known to spy on their citizens for the purpose of “security”, one of the most famous incidents happened just a couple of years back with the entire world finding out through Edward Snowden that the United States government was spying upon its people. Although I do agree with the …show more content…
However, after studying Christian Socialism in Socialist Theory class it began to be clear to me that Jesus was in fact socialist. The Four Gospels gave me some clues to derive to such conclusion. Although at first sight the Four Gospels seem to only tell us about Jesus’ life, you must analysis a bit further to begin to see similarities. Back in the day when the Four Gospels were written, there was no actual definition for socialism, nor even a term like this. However, Jesus claimed that in addition to asking his followers to respect and trust him, he also talks negatively about the wealthy people, stating that they are greedy and even says that a day will come when the rich and the poor will get what they deserve. The poor ones will travel to Heaven, whilst the rich will be sentenced to life in hell. The main issue with this theory is that it cannot be used to guide socialism. The theory is rather unreasonable especially when stating that the rich will only receive what they deserve once they die and not whilst they are on planet earth. Such statement does not particularly affect capitalists, especially when some are non believers, therefore they will most likely not change their