SOCIALISM AND CHRISTIANITY PERFORMED BY ALINA BUYANOVA THE SOCIALIST IDEA DATES BACK TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, WHEN THE FIRST SOCIALIST UTOPIA OF THOMAS MORE WAS WRITTEN. CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM HAVE A DIFFICULT HISTORY OF RELATIONSHIPS. Before Marx, socialism was not tightly connected with atheism. The term "socialism" appeared in the 30s. 19th century in France. At that time, it was Christians who preached socialist doctrine. A.I. HERZEN WROTE: Socialism is «a society without government, the fulfillment of Christianity and the implementation of revolutions». THE BASIC IDEAS OF SOCIALISM DERIVE FROM CHRISTIAN CULTURE. 1) «in everything you want people to do with you, so do you with them» 2) «love your neighbor as yourself» But in the rational nineteenth century, socialism inherited from the Enlightenment rational-scientific argumentation, turning into social science, a kind of social engineering.
