More than 40 years ago, I attended the Jesuits` Loyola University in Chicago. Rev. J. Vincent Kelly, S.J., taught Rational Psychology.
One evening Father Kelly presented a brilliant declamation on the inevitable decline of communism. I can still see him at the blackboard, tall and ramrod-straight, chalk flying. He listed in one-two-three order all the reasons why communism could not possibly last. A few of us gave him a bit of an argument against his thesis. After all, the Russians had the bomb by that time; the Korean War was on; much of Eastern Europe was under full communist control; the Cold War was gaining momentum.
”Even so,” he persisted, ”communism is bound to fail.”
Unfortunately, I cannot recall all the reasons Father Kelly set forth when he predicted the fall of communism. I do remember, though, his one-sentence summation: ”You see,” he said, ”communism goes against human nature.”
