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MARXISM AND THE MANIPULATION OF MAN
wirh Bmnarck and they "planned" socialism. They introduced state aid,
production cooperatives, naoonaluaoon. and general manhood suffrage.
Later Btsmarck really embarked on a program of social legislation. The
greatest rival of the Marxians was the Prmstan government, and they
fought with every ponuble movement.
Now you must realize that in Frussu. the Prussian Church, the
Protesunt Church, was simply a depanment of the government,
.tdimnttfered by a member of the Cabinet—the Minister of Education and
Affairs of (Culture One of the councilors m the lower levels of the
idimmitraoon dealt with the problems of the church. The church in this
regard was a state church, it was e\m a sute church in its origin. Until
1817, there %wre Lutherans and C^vinists m Prussia. The Hohenzollerns
liidn't like this sute ai affairs The Lutherans \srrc in the majority in the
i>ld Prussun territories, but in the nes%-ly acquired territories there were
Ixith groups In spite of the fact thai the nujoriry of the whole Prussian
people were Lutheram. the electorate of the Brandenburgs had changed
from Lutheram to Calvinists ITie Hohen/oUerns were Calvinists. but they
were the head of the Lutheran ('hurth in (heir countrv*. Then in 1817,
under Ftrdertck Wilhelm 111 oi Prussu. the ts^x) churches were merged to
form the Prussun Union Church The Church was a branch of the
country's government
From the seventeenth century on in Kussu. the church was simply a
depanment t:^ the gosrrnment The chuah was not independent.
Dependeiue c^ the church on the »etuUr povsrr was one of the
character tstus of' the Ka*iern C.hunh at Comtantinoplc. The head of the
Eastern Empire wa% in fact the Superior of the Patriarch. This same system
was to tome extent carried osrr into Russu. but ihcrc the church was only
a part of the ginrrnment Therefore, if >x>u attacked the church, you also
attacked the gosrrnment
The thirsi countrv in whuh the pn.>blcm was ver>' critical was Italy,
where the tutionaltst unification implied the abohtion of the secular rule
of the l\>pe. Until the second part of the nineteenth century the central
part of Italy was ruled independently b>' the Pope. In 186(), the king of
Saidinu conquered these suies. The Pope reuined only Rome, under the
piotection of a detachment of the French Army until 1860, when the
French had to withdraw to fight Prussu Therefore, there was a very violent
feud benwen the Clathohc C:hurch and the lulian secular state. The
struggle of the Church against the ideas of the Marxians concerning
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