Resolution by Thinkers Who Were Precursors to Communism

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39. Claude Henri de Saint-Simon

(1760-1825; divided society into two classes those who have leisure and those who work. )

40. F. M. Charles Fourier

(1772-1837; criticized the evils of bourgeois society. He proposed the creation of harmonious social groups called phalanxes. )

41. Robert Owen

(1771-1858, one of the three great utopian socialists. He organized the New Harmony cooperative society in America.)

42. Gracchus Babeuf

(1760-1797; advocated the abolition of private property and the realization of a society of equality. He incited a riot, was captured and executed.)

43. Louis Auguste Blanqui

(1805-1881; participated in the French revolutionary movement. He advocated taking power by means of violent revolution by a small number of well-trained people.)

44. Etienne Cabet

(1778-1856; proposed a communal system of property on the theory that the basis for all social science lies in the equality of wealth. Author of Travels in Icaria.)

45. Pierre Joseph Proudhon

(1809-1865; French economist who sought the overthrow of capitalism by peaceful means.)

We seven thoroughly repent and regret that we provided the initial impetus for the creation of a thought that has obstructed human cultural development, and adopt the following resolution:

Resolved:

First: We believe with absolute certainty that God exists.

Second: We firmly believe that God is the Parent of humankind.

Third: We absolutely believe that human beings are not material existences, but were created as God's precious children.

Fourth: We believe with certainty that just as there is a corporeal world, so also there is a world after death, an incorporeal world, in which the soul lives eternally.

Fifth: We believe with certainty that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is the True Parent of humankind and the Messiah.

We seven thinkers hereby declare this resolution, whereby we firmly pledge to attend God as our vertical True Parent and Reverend Sun Myung Moon as our horizontal True Parent and dedicate ourselves to bringing about a world of peace for humanity centering on Godism.

April 27, 2002.

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