Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12.2.

This is resistance and reformation on the Fight, laugh, feast network.

The last 200 years have witnessed an extended parade of heroes and villains,

practically unmatched in all of history. From Wilberforce, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Reagan, to Napoleon, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler,

and Mao, from Chalmers, Spurgeon, Kuiper, Chesterton, and Lewis to Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud,

Kinsey, and Sanger. This cavalcade has convulsed modernity in alternating waves of hope and despair,

freedom and bondage, prosperity and destitution.

Of all these heroes and villains, which one has had the greatest impact on the modern world?

Which one has left the most indelible mark?

Well might the case be made that the most influential voice, the most enduring legacy of the last two centuries was that of Karl Marx?

According to historian Paul Johnson, Carl Marx has had more impact on actual events as well as on the minds of men and women, than any other intellectual and modern

times. Likewise, the Smithsonian scholar James Billington has asserted, Marx is the progenitor,

the fountainhead, the father of the revolutionary age in which we now live.

Marx was renowned for his advocacy for exploited factory workers,

this despite the fact that there is no documentary evidence

that he ever actually visited a factory,

much less witnessed the industrial working conditions of his day.

Indeed, he refused to allow factory workers to serve in leadership positions in the Communist International League.

He maintained a lifelong withering contempt for anyone who he determined was not an intellectual or academic.

He was stubbornly, incorrigibly deskbound.

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