Apr 10, 2025
Marxism is fast becoming a dominant ideology in the West, even among many professing Christians (whether they understand that or not). And Marxism has its roots in the teachings of Charles Darwin (itself founded upon the unbiblical secular timeline of supposed “millions of years” of earth history), which of course, many in the church have adopted.
Our Western Society and Marxism
Karl Marx’s ideology emanates from a naturalistic, atheistic understanding of life, which requires some form of evolution to account for our existence. And of course, because it only espouses ‘natural law’, removing the Creator does away with any kind of created order and absolute moral law. This allows for (among other things) destruction of family, family hierarchy, and gender norms and either silently condones or actively encourages sexual deviancy, abortion, euthanasia, pedophilia, and eugenics.
Ultimately, it creates a “survival of the fittest” mentality in a society, within which totalitarian governmental systems easily operate and thrive (as they control all of the major resources and are the “fittest” among us). As H. Enoch, former President of the Union of Evangelical Students of India and Vice Presidents of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students stated: “Darwinism consistently applied would measure goodness in terms of survival value. This is the law of the jungle where “might is right” and the fittest survive. Whether cunning or cruelty, cowardice or deceit, whatever will enable the individual to survive is good and right for that individual or that society.”
And all of these ideas are prominent and evident in western culture today. How did this come to be in societies where, in the past, indeed the very fabric of these societies were once built upon biblical foundations and interwoven with scriptural norms? It’s actually quite easily done—simply teach Darwinism to generations of students.
Popularity of Socialism, Communism, and Marxist Ideology Today
In the United States, well-known political figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders (who call themselves democratic socialists), are both raising eyebrows among some conservative types, and yet gaining massive support from the public, particularly among the younger demographics who have been steeped in secular teaching since their arrival in state-run schools at a very young age.
And lest I think of myself as being that different than my US counterparts, Canadians need to understand that we are actually much further down the road of socialism than they are. In many cases have willingly adopted policies that would have never even been considered half a century ago. While approximately 55 percent of people in the United States see socialism negatively, according to a recent Forum Research poll (from a poll of 1,733 voters), 58 percent of Canadian voters interviewed said they view socialism positively!
Beware What You Wish For
Even though Marxism or Communism has never worked to bring about any form of societal utopia in any country it has ever been implemented in formerly, many people believe it should still be implemented in Western society today, perhaps in a new format that will “fix” any previous improprieties that took place in the past.
Consider outspoken humanist and American political writer Kurt Vonnegut’s response to George Santayana’s famous “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” quote: “I’ve got news for Mr. Santayana: we’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive.”
And perhaps even more poignant is the controversial American anarchist author, poet, and pedophilia advocate Peter Lamborn Wilson’s ironic quote: “Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.”
What Is Marxism Anyway?
Simply put, Marxism is a redefined form of communism, an economic and political theory developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles in which the workers in a society own the means of production, distribution, and the exchange of goods to make money. Its goal is to resolve the problems resulting from abuse in capitalistic societies, including the exploitation of laborers and the widening gap between the largely poor masses and the very few rich. According to the Socialism 101 website:
Marxism focuses on class relations and societal conflict, and uses a materialistic interpretation of historical development, and a dialectical view of social transformation. Marxist methodology uses economic and sociopolitical inquiry and applies that to the critique and analysis of the development of capitalism and the role of class struggle in systemic economic change.
While socialism and communism existed before Marx, he and Engels were the ones who turned the utopian dream of a perfect society into a practical science. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are alone responsible for popularizing socialism and communism throughout the world, and it is safe to say that socialism would have remained an impractical, utopian, near impossible-to-implement ideology without Marxist analyses.
The Attraction of Socialism vs. Capitalism?
Capitalism has been commonly described as a socioeconomic system in which private ownership for profit controls the trade industry and the market, and it has been dominant in most Western countries. It incorporates biblical principles like private ownership (based on the Eighth Commandment), personal responsibility, and hard work (such as the warnings against sloth in the book of Proverbs and the principle of “those who don’t work don’t eat,” reiterated in 2 Thessalonians 3:10).
For the Christian, the system incorporates the commonly called “Puritan work ethic,” the idea that God has provided man with a bountiful creation with many resources. Given a free society and opportunity, if individuals work hard, they can get ahead economically. And the ability to make more capital should motivate them to continue working hard and provide for their families and for others less fortunate than themselves as an outflow of that bounty.
But admittedly, if capitalism does not continue to include other biblical principles like charity, providing for orphans and widows, feeding the poor, and personal generosity, it doesn’t always work in the favor of prosperity and progress for all.
Increasingly, big corporations tend to dominate the market, and small businesses and individuals have more difficulty finding their way up in the market. Mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships among mega-companies aimed to increase profits and eliminate competitors are often very successful (for individual corporations, not their employees), leaving many small companies in a bind. And in this way, critics of capitalism say the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, which is often true.
This is where many perhaps well-meaning Christians might agree to do away with capitalism to some degree. However, it would be well for them to note that the same sin-nature that causes people to deviate from God’s principles inhabits those leaders who would rule under Marxist principles. And under an ideology that is undergirded in the belief that there is no God, and therefore no moral absolutes, Marxism justifies all manner of atrocities as part of “the good.”
Darwinian Basis for Marxism
Marxist communism is greatly influenced by Social Darwinism (founded by English naturalist Charles Darwin, author of On the Origin of Species). Marx and Engels “were exceedingly enthusiastic over Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species. Karl Marx wrote a letter to Engels in December of 1860 declaring that On the Origin of Species was ‘the book which contains the basis in natural history for our views.’”
As an atheist, Karl Marx viewed the world in terms of a class struggle in which the state was the supreme authority. As mentioned, in his mind the struggle of the classes for existence was comparable to the “survival of the fittest” in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Marxism “insists that man’s well-being is inevitably and progressively improved through a blind process of class struggle and revolution” or the progressive improvement and development of man.
In another letter dated January of 1861, Marx wrote: “Darwin’s book is very important and serves me as a basis of struggle in history . . . not only is a death blow dealt here for the first time to ‘Teleology’ in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is emphatically explained.”
Like Darwin, Marx viewed men in terms of constant evolution, therefore not completely developed, which then justified violent revolution and death as a means of human progress as one group conquered and replaced another. In current times, we see Marxist and Darwinian ideas being used as an excuse to perpetuate the idea to “live and let others live,” in whatever way people desire, without a supreme authority (much like the Israelites after Joshua died—see Judges 21:25). So, disobedience to God’s rules is not only normal but totally accepted as part of our random evolutionary process as humans. READ MORE
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SOURCE: Harbinger's Daily