What We Need To Pray About – September 20, 2024

The Marks of Marxism (Part 4 of 5)

This 5-part series on the Marks of Marxism is intended to shore up an area of ignorance for many, if not most, Christians. In an appearance on the Ingraham Angle on the Fox News Channel on May 7, 2024, Dennis Prager profoundly commented: “Most Americans don’t want to acknowledge the threat to Western civilization the left poses.” Prager is dead center on the bullseye. As Christians, we busy ourselves with all the things we should be doing: loving our family and friends, going to work, paying our bills, caring for neighbors and our community, reading our Bibles, praying, going to church on Sunday. We don’t invest much of our time in understanding political movements and trends, at least until we see something as a threat to our values or way of life. But that is a fault we Christians have, not a virtue. Scripture calls us to be alert and watchful (1 Peter 5:8; Mark 13:35-37). Bible-believing Christians ought to be the most informed, thoughtful, and engaged people on the planet.

There is an urgent need for American believers to quickly get up to speed in our understanding of Marxist ideology. While most of us have been asleep for the last one hundred years or so, a Marxist cultural revolution has been taking place all around us. Gradually, almost imperceptibly, radical leftists have taken control of our educational system, the media, the bureaucracy of our government, and even the leadership of many Christian denominations. We are now staring dead in the face at the possible election of a President who fully embraces Marxist ideology with all its inherent evils. Four years of her radical agenda to deconstruct our society would almost certainly take us past the point of no return. There’s no doubt the alternative candidate has flaws, but he’s no communist!

In this week’s installment, you’ll see the list of the four Marks of Marxism covered in previous weeks (with some links to highly enlightening videos you’ll want to see under #2). Then you’ll find the next three marks, 5-7, with commentary. The final installment of this series will be in next week’s 714 Report.

1. Marxism is fundamentally utopian in nature. See September 6^th and September 13^th Reports.
2. Marxism can only be implemented through totalitarianism. September 6^th and 13^th
   
   • If you listen to them enough, Marxists always give away their totalitarian tendencies.
   • RFK, Jr., explained the inversion of the Democratic Party with the Republican Party on the subject of censorship and why Kamala Harris is disqualified from being President.
   • Victor Davis Hanson explained the weaponization of our legal system.
   
3. Marxism is anti-family. See September 13^th Report.
4. Marxism is atheistic, anti-God, and anti-religion. See September 13^th Report.
5. Marxism is intentionally divisive in nature in order to divide and conquer. In classic Marxism, the division was between economic classes of people, “the haves” and “the have-nots”, the “bourgeoisie” and the “proletariat”. In 20^th century America and Western Europe, that division stopped being effective for Marxists. The free markets of capitalism worked. Life for all people improved.  So, in the early 1900’s, Marxist philosophers had to look for a new point of division. What emerged was a form of Marxism not based so much on economics as on societal and cultural norms. This new Marxism came to be called Cultural Marxism. It emerged originally from the Frankfurt School of philosophers and psychologists in Germany. It then took root in America, first at Columbia University in New York. Then, as indoctrinated students graduated from Columbia with their doctorates, they fanned out across academia spreading their new worldview. “Critical Theory” was a cornerstone of this re-branding of Karl Marx’s old philosophy. It described American society as a struggle between privileged oppressors and the oppressed. Specifically, it described the patriarchal aspects of our society as oppressive to women and called for the “overthrow of the patriarchy”. Then, in the mid-20^th century, Critical Race Theory (CRT) moved onto the scene defining white people as “the privileged” and non-whites “the oppressed”. Critical Theory called into question everything about American history and culture, including the moral beliefs and absolutes held by the vast majority of people since its inception. Homosexuality and transgenderism were promoted and described as “woke ideology”, or “wokeism”. This is Cultural Marxism, and it is deeply dividing us.
6. Marxism is global. Marxists don’t seek implementation of their economic, social, and political agenda just in their own nation or culture. They believe Marxism is the natural course of history and should, and will, impact all people everywhere. We hear a lot about “globalism” and a “new world order” or a “one world order”. When you hear those terms don’t think of an American-style republic with “natural” God-given rights that can’t be taken away. That is not the “order” that is meant. Think instead of a system where there are no individual rights, and the government IS god. Think of a Revelation 13 scenario where the anti-Christ heads up a one world economy, a one world government, and even a one world religion – i.e., a global tyranny. What is a Christian to do in the face of any type of tyrannical globalist movement? PEACEFULLY RESIST!
7. Marxism is ironically embraced primarily by the elite. This surprised Karl Marx. The common people, the less educated workers of the world, never really bought into his idealism, not with the traction he expected. Common people, people with common sense and a sense of God, were repulsed by the anti-God, anti-family, anti-morality aspects of his utopian ideals. They were content to work hard each day and go home in the evenings and be with their own family. What they owned may not have been nearly as much as the rich capitalists who were purportedly exploiting their labor, but what they owned was theirs. And with it came freedom. Where did Marxism gain traction? The same place it gains traction today – with the economic and educational elite. In other words, with those who have time to study philosophy and think grandiose thoughts about utopias. It appeals to those who live in academia, and to those who have inherited wealth and capital. Interestingly, in recent years, there has been a complete reversal in the American political parties in this regard. The Democrats have become the party of the elite, and the Republicans have become the party of the working class. In 2020, those who voted for Biden owned 70% of the nation’s wealth. Those who voted for Trump, mostly working-class people, owned 30%, but they owned all the common sense.

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