The Spirit of Christ, which is truth and love, and in whom alone this unity is assured, urges to truthfulness and faithfulness. For this reason, an insight into the basic moral requirements of political life is always alive in the church. No political thinking can do without this demand. No form of government can claim it for its own. The socialist state of the future intends to make greater use of this fundamental concept of a communalist state.
Socialism preaches the turning away from the mammonistic abuses of militarism in the old state.
Yet socialism, with its rigorous organization of the masses and strictly applied discipline, is simply another form of the same totalitarian state and its militarism. Marxism, too, has to compensate for the absent Spirit by applying coercive measures. This is not the way to win the paradise of work and felicity. Any sociopolitical reordering has to postulate the absolute power of the state and is nevertheless incapable of abolishing the power of egoism. To master the mammon spirit and its murderous character, spiritual forces are needed that cannot be mustered by the efforts of economic politics.