There was no need to postulate some impossible change of heart. Dialectical materialism* would compel men to live in Utopia whatever the promptings of their hearts.
This stood out as, from my limited understanding of the meaning of those terms, this view is the number one reason for the failing of Communism and for the rightful place of a socialist attitude with Christianity. Utopia is a heart matter more than a material one - without a right heart one cannot find or be in Utopia.
The new Kingdom that Jesus ushers in comes with an impossible change of heart. Impossible, of course, is what God can do.
Much more to comment here but first I need to be a lot better read on this.
*[Earlier I read that 'dialectical materialism' was Marx's name for a reverse of the Hegelian process of the dialectic. For Hegel, where there is conflict between a thesis challenged by an antithesis it gives rise to a new synthesis and so on. For Marx the conflict was not between the thesis and antithesis ideas but in the world and this conflict gave rise to ideas (rather than ideas giving rise to conflict).]
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