Early in his new book, CENTURY columnist Phil Christman recounts a formative, almost mystical episode from a college Bible study. But if you’re a liberal, you’re also committed to electoral politics in a binary system where, per Citizens United v. FEC, money talks. Leftism recognizes the historical contingency of capitalism, diagnoses its ills, and imagines how we could organize society differently. The birth pangs of capitalism from feudalism can be echoed by the emergence of socialism from capitalism. As Alberto Toscano argues in Late Fascism, fascism arises as a crisis within capitalism.