...”Socialism has every good intention in the world, except that its trying to BE God. If it were mistakenly trying to SERVE God, many of its evils would end up being ameliorated in practice. But when it gets into explicit loggerheads with God, its evils are starkly prominent”...
I agree with your description of socialism except for the “every good intention,” part. I do not believe that socialists have good intentions. I see them as lusting to take away the freedom of the masses and to steal everything for themselves. They believe everyone else should exist to serve them and those who are inconvenient or not cooperative will ultimately be killed. This happens when the attractive socialism turns to communism which it always does. The real God will take action at some point but usually not until unbelievable human suffering has taken place. I personally believe that Hell does exist for the Godless socialists among us. Justice will come in the hereafter.
Those who fulminate at suboptimal methodologies and condemn those who use them to hell, quite miss the point of heaven, hell, and earth.
Communism isn’t the devil. It’s a symptom, not the disease.
Get people believing in God and they won’t WANT communism. They will quickly identify it as a blessing squelcher.
Besides I really ought to say “every good intention” with tongue in cheek. It’s trying to do things that would be good if done towards God, and do them towards people. Won’t fly, never has, never will.
But it’s only a change of belief away from things that ARE godly.