Socialism

Explain the significance of the quote below. Who wrote it? Who were they writing to? What did they say? Why is it important? In the second, describe the significance in context with the broader history of socialism. Your answer should be two paragraphs. In the first, answer the previous questions. In the second, describe the significance in context with the broader history of socialism. (25 points)

We derive our right to let the exceptional law continue from duty and from the fulfillment of the duty of Christian legislation. On the Progressive side, you call it “socialist legislation”; I prefer the term “Christian.” At the time of the Apostles, socialism went very much further still. If perhaps you will read the Bible once, you will find out various things about it in the Acts of the Apostles. I don’t go as far in our own times. But I get the courage for repressive measures only from my good intention of working to the end that, so far as a Christian-minded state society may do it, the real grievances, the real hardships of fate, about which the workers have to complain, will be alleviated and will be redressed.