Introduction: The Claim of Communism

Abstract

It may seem the word ‘community’ can never measure up to the demands of our time, lending itself too easily to a banal political rhetoric, ecumenical enough to appeal to the left and the right, but open-ended enough in the end to mean nothing at all. It offers itself to those who seek to remedy the breakdown of traditional values by appealing to the lost unanimity that would remain the yardstick by which this breakdown could be measured.