The hope and dream of most socialist and communist leaders (Karl Marx in the 1840s) was a more equal society. One where wealth and power was dispersed among the people, the proletariat and not concentrated with the nobles at the top.
Fast forward almost 200 years later and Vladimir Putin is the culmination and the glory of socialism in Russia. A lone thug, a violent king, the thing the early socialists/ communists wanted to remove.
Isn’t it ironic? I think it is very ironic.
They fail not because it’s an entirely bad idea, not because intentions were not good. Not because they are fundamentally evil or unintelligent. Karl Marx and his contemporaries were extremely learned and intellectual people. But they fail for the same reasons all political movements fail, because they have excluded and snubbed Jesus Christ. Marx was openly atheist. Most communist countries have been oppressive to Christians and sometimes all religion. So, they become what they once resisted, it is the fate of human government in every form, snub Him and you’re undone, irrelevant, all you have after him is the varied forms violence if you want to remain in control.
Hitler was the culmination and glory of socialism in Germany.
Many examples in Venezuela, Cuba, soviet era violent thugs.
There is both an open and subversive movement of socialists and even communists in the US. This movement is not a Christian movement, people who claim to be Christian may be in these movements but they rarely if ever use their Christianity as a reason for the things they are striving for. Fast forward, who will be the culmination and glory of socialism in the US? Will the democrats, with republican enabling, continue us down that mentally ill path? Do we really need to experience almost 200 years of violence to get to that person?
Start to lose public support (cater to your base) they switch to whatever it takes to hold onto power. Then when censorship, vote cheating, manipulation of race tension, and political imprisonments stop working.
It is open war, stealing, killing, assassinations, and destroying. They do as their spiritual leader leads them to do. Today’s (Feb-March 2022) prime example of that is Putin’s invasion of his neighbor Ukraine.
Socialism / communism is not solved by political action and violence. It’s a spiritual condition, Jesus Christ is the cure. Not church activities and not organizing for certain policy and not moralizing from the pulpits!
But the preaching of Jesus Christ, and much more importantly the dominance and headship of Jesus Christ within churches, and among Christians. Read more about the dominance and headship of Jesus Christ… <click here >
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