“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”

— George Jackson

Workers have long-known the violence of imperialism⁠—experientially, if not theoretically⁠— but toleration of such conditions is becoming increasingly impossible. The world molded by the relentless dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is collapsing before all of us⁠, and their contradictions, as always, first come at the expense of the proletariat.

We all know this. All of creation, the Spirit, groans for a new world.

The climate crisis demands the abolition and radical reconstruction of society. This past week, through the global climate strike, the sons and daughters prophesied (Acts 2). Youth climate activist Greta Thurnberg declared, “Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.”

This crisis demands a socialist revolution.

This necessary action to many Christians seems theologically unprecedented completely foreign to church praxis (even though a bold minority of Christians, including clergy, have participated in socialist revolutions around the world). Let us remember, though, that church praxis is in no way disconnected from the systems of this world, namely imperialism, but instead has been formed by a synergistic relationship with society’s dominant and oppressive forces. The Christianity of the so-called U.S. is no exception, but vital to contemporary imperialism. The revolution demands us Christians crucify much of our Christianity – whatever holds us back from revolutionary love. That said, it does not demand us to give up our faith.

There’s a revolutionary potentiality humming in every display of working class subversion, seeking to be known in the binding of all struggles. The Spirit of God lives there, beckoning the masses to forge the freest, truest possibilities. It can be said that the Spirit is the kin-dom within. She is the world the Christian revolutionary is materially seeking—communion, presence, free of isolating greed.

The world we are seeking is a not a theocracy, or a Christo-fascism. We are not seeking for every tongue to confess Jesus as Lord. We are not seeking to impose our western faith to every inch of the globe. The world we are seeking is one free from imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy. The world we are seeking does not rely on exploitation or domination. The world we are seeking is one where it is easy to do good—to love our neighbor. The world we are seeking is communist.

It seems that God is asking us to surrender our pursuit of sanctification and our organized fellowship, give up dreams of growing or building the church, and to instead discover the living God in the masses, and together organize a global movement of proletarian liberation. We will be formed into weapons, not for the sake of piety or entrance into heaven, but out of an agapic love that demands liberation by any means necessary. It seems, if revolution is demanded of us, it means we are called to pour our hearts and lives into revolutionary cadres. We are called to let our Christianity dissolve into revolutionary practice, led by love for the people and grounded in dialectical materialism. This is what faithfulness looks like.

The socialist revolution requires a reconstruction of all aspects of life, including our religion.

As we crucify our Christianity, may we come closer to the Spirit of Jesus.

As we seek a new world, may our faith give us eyes to see the freest, truest possibilities.



May we discover fellowship in the revolutionary movement.

May we never lose sight of the revelation of Love that led us into conversion—may this all-consuming Love be at the base of our insurrection.