Christian Socialism: quotation source challenge

Remember who said this?

“Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the state? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates …”

No Googling. I’ll post the source tomorrow.

3 thoughts on “Christian Socialism: quotation source challenge”

  1. Ya, I’ll go with Nietzsche. He would lump together socialism and Christianity as self mortification of the individual.

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