From Marx’s Communist Manifesto, along with other writings, are a few key principles:
A lot of people (especially secular conservatives in this thread) don’t recognize Marxism’s war against all of us today, because they think of it in the 19th century terms in which Karl Marx developed it – economic war between the working class and the property-holding elites.
By the mid-20th century, communist ‘intellectuals’ recognized that the economics of communism had failed completely, and so they shifted to the cultural and the sexual.
But the vision never changed – destroy Christianity, destroy morality, persecute Christians, and corrupt the society so severely that it cannot recover. From Satan’s point of view in the spiritual realm, harden the culture so thoroughly that the Gospel will be despised and no one would consider becoming a Christian. The Devil wants to populate Hell with as many image-bearers as possible.
- Communism seeks “to abolish the present state of things.”
- Communist goals can be achieved “only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”
- Communists will support all kinds of revolutionary movements as long as they work against the existing social and political order.
- A fruitful communist tactic is the “ruthless criticism of all that exists.”
- Marx loves the quote from Goethe’s Faust: “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”
- In Marx’s essay declaring that religion is “the opium of the people,” he asserted that “the criticism of religion is the beginning of all criticism.”
A lot of people (especially secular conservatives in this thread) don’t recognize Marxism’s war against all of us today, because they think of it in the 19th century terms in which Karl Marx developed it – economic war between the working class and the property-holding elites.
By the mid-20th century, communist ‘intellectuals’ recognized that the economics of communism had failed completely, and so they shifted to the cultural and the sexual.
But the vision never changed – destroy Christianity, destroy morality, persecute Christians, and corrupt the society so severely that it cannot recover. From Satan’s point of view in the spiritual realm, harden the culture so thoroughly that the Gospel will be despised and no one would consider becoming a Christian. The Devil wants to populate Hell with as many image-bearers as possible.
