Reflection: Week 5 [Wednesday]

Christ was a great revolutionary… Karl Marx would have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount. – Fidel Castro

The details of the sermon Jesus gave were to uphold the rights of the “little people” and poor, so I can see where Castro would pair revolution and the Sermon on the Mount together. Although it is more of a social justice speech than a socialistic one, with references to the poor, meek, merciful, and peacemakers throughout the Beatitudes.


Karl Marx believed that religion is the "opiate of the masses" and was against faith towards a higher power. Jesus said he came not to overthrow the law, but to fulfill it. The definition of a revolution does fit Jesus and his words, faith, and actions on Earth, so the first part of Castro's quote is correct. Although it was not as a political revolutionary, but as an agent of change in the cosmic struggle.