I heard an interesting study today. It related that communism had originally been based upon an eschatology formed from Marx, in turn from Hegel, in turn from Daniel.
Some of this came from Norman Cohn (cohen sp?) in an essay on Hegel and the fourth Kingdom, which apparently came out of an eastern German sect of Reformed believing peasants.
Running a search I came upon a few interesting book titles that might be apropo for this Administration and our perception of the times.
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/02/norman-cohn-john-gray-world
Interesting.
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