Communism and the Conscience of the West. Indianapolis/NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1948. Orig. gilt-stamped red cloth, dust jacket. Pages toned, light staining to upper cover, head and tail of spine bumped; dust jacket stained, sunned, chipped, tears repaired with tape. First edition, annotated and underscored throughout by Rand. Bishop Fulton Sheen was an immensely popular radio personality who later branched into television during the 1950s. Though president of Catholic University and a working priest, he preached a popular brand of Christian humanism that laid the groundwork for modern televangelism. Sheen was an ardent anti-communist, but in this work, he also opposes western "laissez-faire liberalism" and materialism. Rand scholars will understand why she bought this book, and also why she detested it so thoroughly: in the first paragraph she highlights the following sentence: "It has always been a part of the Christian tradition that the guilt of humanity at any one segment of the circle is to some extent the guilt of the circle itself." It gets worse from there, as Sheen preaches that the "dangers of monopolistic capitalism" as as real as those of communism. On p. 80, she undescores Sheen's words: "The true Christian must rid himself of the delusion that in opposing communism the Church thereby puts itself in opposition to all those who would seek thus to change the present economic system. The Christian concept denies there is an absolutely owned private property exclusive of limits set by the common good of the community and responsibility to the community." To this, Rand remarks: "And these are the people who boast of belief in absolutes!" On nearly every two-page spread of the first 106 pages she calls him to task for logical fallacies, or simply expostulates "Good God!" "Oh, hell!" and "This is plain gibberish." Provenance: From the Library of Ayn Rand. See illustration.
Communism and the Conscience of the West. Indianapolis/NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1948. Orig. gilt-stamped red cloth, dust jacket. Pages toned, light staining to upper cover, head and tail of spine bumped; dust jacket stained, sunned, chipped, tears repaired with tape. First edition, annotated and underscored throughout by Rand. Bishop Fulton Sheen was an immensely popular radio personality who later branched into television during the 1950s. Though president of Catholic University and a working priest, he preached a popular brand of Christian humanism that laid the groundwork for modern televangelism. Sheen was an ardent anti-communist, but in this work, he also opposes western "laissez-faire liberalism" and materialism. Rand scholars will understand why she bought this book, and also why she detested it so thoroughly: in the first paragraph she highlights the following sentence: "It has always been a part of the Christian tradition that the guilt of humanity at any one segment of the circle is to some extent the guilt of the circle itself." It gets worse from there, as Sheen preaches that the "dangers of monopolistic capitalism" as as real as those of communism. On p. 80, she undescores Sheen's words: "The true Christian must rid himself of the delusion that in opposing communism the Church thereby puts itself in opposition to all those who would seek thus to change the present economic system. The Christian concept denies there is an absolutely owned private property exclusive of limits set by the common good of the community and responsibility to the community." To this, Rand remarks: "And these are the people who boast of belief in absolutes!" On nearly every two-page spread of the first 106 pages she calls him to task for logical fallacies, or simply expostulates "Good God!" "Oh, hell!" and "This is plain gibberish." Provenance: From the Library of Ayn Rand. See illustration.
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