The Promise of Socialism

The promise of socialism lies on the "automatism" of economic laws which deprive the individual of his freedom of will and make him subject to his class situation, i.e., unfree. It is as bold and daring a piece of speculative theology as the antinomy between actual freedom and complete predestination in Calvinism, to which Marxism bears a striking resemblance intellectually and ideologically and in its historical function.