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…had not recanted his theories. By instilling fear and a sense of duty in God, the church was able to keep control over the common people. Brecht used all of these Marxist ideals: economic materialism, dictatorship of the proletariat, and class warfare to write the historical play Galileo. His ideas of a communist government were evident in a time where one did not yet exist, at least to the people living in that specific era.