"John Wesley and Karl Marx, unmistakably, are the two most influential characters of all modern history." So argues J.
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, at least, Evangelical religion-as found in the life and teaching of John Wesley-had profound consequences that were anything but an opiate of the people (contra the teachings of Karl Marx).
Wesley Bready in this classic statement on the Social significance of the original Evangelical movement in Great Britain. "John Wesley and Karl Marx, unmistakably, are the two most influential characters of all modern history." So argues J