What We Need to Pray About – September 27, 2024

The Marks of Marxism (Part 5 of 5)

In the final installment of this series on Marxism you will find a list of the first seven marks covered in previous weeks. Links to those 714 Reports are provided in case you missed the commentary on those marks. The final three marks to be covered in this series are added this week with fresh commentary.

1. Marxism is fundamentally utopian in nature.  Sept 6^th and 13^th
2. Marxism can only be implemented through totalitarianism. Sept 6^th and 13^th
3. Marxism is anti-family.  Sept 13^th
4. Marxism is atheistic, anti-God, and anti-religion.  Sept 13^th
5. Marxism is intentionally divisive in nature in order to divide and conquer. Sept 20^th
6. Marxism is global. Sept 20^th
7. Marxism is ironically embraced primarily by the elite. Sept 20^th
8. Marxism is Hegelian in its methodology. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher who influenced the thinking of Karl Marx. Marx rejected most of Hegel’s philosophy, but he was greatly influenced by Hegel’s “dialectical method”. Hegel posited that a new idea, a “thesis”, is usually met with resistance, or, its “antithesis”. Over time, from these competing ideas, a “synthesis” will emerge. That synthesis then becomes the new thesis and is met with another antithesis, and the historical process continues. That is an oversimplification, but it gives you the general idea. It is a theory intended to describe how history unfolds. Hegel believed that this method was only about ideas – that progress and social change resulted from the conflict of ideas. Marx was more radical and took it one step further. He believed that the evolution of the material world in a society would lead to conditions that would eventually call for “an era of social revolution”.¹ He said, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it … At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production … Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.”² What Marx learned from Hegel was the necessity of patience, but when the time is right, in order to win the day, social upheaval must and will ensue. It was a concept he promoted vigorously in his writing and instruction to his disciples. This explains the slow and steady drip of advancing Cultural Marxism that has been taking place in our country for the last one hundred years. It also explains the cultural upheaval and division and chaos that we have seen in the last few years. Modern Marxists are well-informed Hegelians. And after a century of patience, they are now poised and ready to strike the death-knell blow.
9. Marxism calls for communism. In order to succeed, Marxism calls for “the abolition of private property”.³   In a Marxist’s understanding, this would be part of the spoils of victory after a communist revolution. An authoritarian or even totalitarian governmental system is considered necessary to Marxists, because, as history has demonstrated, normal and sane people do not readily or easily give up to the government what they own of this world’s goods – at least not all of it. Normal and sensible people are usually willing to give up some of what they own, (or could own in the future), in the form of taxes, but there is a limit. At some point, they begin to toss tea into the harbor. (That tipping point seemed to come much sooner for our founding forefathers than it does for us today.) There is something deep within each of us that understands the profound relationship between ownership and freedom. It may be almost subliminal, but it’s there. It may have to be massaged and brought back to life, but it’s there. Deep down there is a yearning to be free. That yearning stands in the way of what true Marxists want. So, they must eradicate it at gunpoint!
10. Marxism is ultimately a failed philosophy. It has never worked anywhere it has ever been implemented. It might work for a while, but ultimately it fails. The changes required of individuals in order to enact a Marxist society are so contrary to human nature that it is always just a matter of time before the gravity of reality takes over and the utopian dream, (nightmare), dissolves. But oh the human suffering and death that takes place in the intervening years! Marxism is an idea that seemingly will not die. It keeps coming back to life. But everywhere it has ever been tried, Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, North Vietnam, Venezuela, etc., it has resulted in a culture of destruction and death. Some form of Marxism may be about to gain ultimate control here in America.⁴  It may be coming to a White House near and dear to us sometime soon!

Connecting the Dots

Why the emphasis on Marxism now? Because we are coming to an inflection point on November 5^th where we could cross the point of no return in this nation. Kamala Harris and her running-mate are both Marxists. Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution (often referred to as “America’s wise man”), described Kamala Harris as a communist along the lines of the current regime in Venezuela, which is authoritarian, Marxist, and communist. “Why do I say that?” Hanson asked. “Because she said she wants to cancel patents. She wants to confiscate guns. She wants to have a wealth tax, [which] has never worked. She wants a tax on unrealized income. She has promised all these giveaways, amnesty, free transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants, [and] for prisoners; cancelling illegally student loans by executive fiat. So yes, she’s a redistributionist in the Marxist mold.”⁵

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