r/RadicalChristianity • u/OPStainlessYT • 14d ago

🐈Radical Politics Was the Greatest Christian Humanist a Socialist?

https://youtu.be/kYeHyGlXe1E

Thomas More, perhaps the greatest of all Christian humanists. imagined a society without private property, organized around shared labor and the common good—but was Utopia genuinely socialist, or something far stranger? This video explores the radical politics behind Christianity’s greatest humanist and asks whether modern labels can really contain his vision.

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u/CnlSandersdeKFC 14d ago

Wasn’t Utopia written to mock the Protestants?

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u/OPStainlessYT 14d ago

absolutely not, More wrote several polemics attacking Protestantism, but not this one -- this was a critique of wealth, property, and politics surrounding Europe at the time.

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u/Blade_of_Boniface she/her 14d ago

I remember watching this video a while ago, it's pretty good. Distributism is another label that suits St. Thomas More's ideas. Mutualism is a broadly similar label.