Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev is purported to have said in November 1956, “We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the US. We will destroy you from within…we will bury you.” While there are some historians who dispute he said those exact words, nevertheless, his intentions were to state that socialism/communism would gradually be accepted in America as the ideology that will usher in utopia. The woke and “snowflake” ideology endorses socialism as the cure-all for societal woes. With the recent swearing in of Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York, an avowed socialist/communist, it appears Khrushchev’s words are gradually becoming a reality. In his inauguration speech the new New York Mayor stated, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”   His words echo those of Joseph Stalin, who said, “The individual is nothing, the collective is everything.”  And to anyone who knows how to turn a light switch on and off, it is clear to see that the Progressive Left has been pushing socialism for years.    

It is past time people get their heads out of the sand and realize what is happening in our nation and the undercurrents that are seeking to erode the principles that made this country the greatest country on earth. The Progressive Left will disguise “socialism” in code phrases such as: Progressivism, sustainable development, shared collectivism, the precautionary principle, redistribution, giving everyone their fair share.  Well, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig. As well, you can give socialism new names, but it is still nothing but Marxism. And the Radical Left are hard at convincing the citizenry that Marxism (socialism) is the economic path to utopia. However, Marxism is a two-sided coin that seeks to not only bring about (1) economic change, but (2) purge society of God. Let us briefly examine this two-sided coin.

Economically the USA has been a capitalist nation. Capitalism by definition is an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition and supply and demand in the free market. Capitalism has resulted in the USA being the richest nation on earth, and the envy of the rest of the world. However, in recent years we have seen the push to replace capitalism with socialism, which history has proven does not work and always brings economic collapse.

In a socialist system production and distribution decisions are made by the government, and individuals rely on the state for everything from food to healthcare. The government determines the output and pricing of all goods and services. Socialists argue that shared ownership of resources and central planning provide a more equal distribution of goods and services and a more equitable society. Socialism promises much, but delivers misery. Socialism always fails because sooner or later the nation runs out of everyone else’s money!! Again, today in the USA the March toward Marxism is most prevalent, and if embraced the nation is headed for collapse like every nation who has traveled down the Marxian Road.

One who carefully examines the principles espoused by Karl Marx, will discover that economically it will lead to disaster and spiritually end in atheism.  Marx (1818-1883) was born in Trier, Prussia in 1818. His parents were Jewish who in 1816 converted to the Lutheran Church. While Karl Marx was baptized into Lutheranism at age six, he later became an atheist. Attending the University of Bonn, but because he was constantly getting into trouble, he enrolled at the University of Berlin. There he studied law and philosophy. His rebellious nature found him challenging established ideas on every front, religion, philosophy, economics, ethics and politics.

Marx held capitalism in complete disdain, claiming that it would be the ruination of all societies, leaving them no alternative but to claim socialism as the  answer to survival. Marx contended that capitalism would inevitably lead to a revolution by the working class due to the strain that it placed upon what he perceived as oppressed workers. Marx dreamed of creating a society where there was no distinction  between rich and poor. Marx was unhappy with the societal climate of his day, and taught in order to change society the economic structure of the country must be changed (socialism). Marx envisioned a revolutionary society in which everyone’s needs are met, and no class divisions exist.  His mantra was, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” (Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program, 1875) This system, we equate with socialism, was Marx’s vision for the perfect society.

Interestingly, the ten principles Marx advocated in his co-authored work with Friedrich Engels in 1848, The Communist Manifesto (Chapter 2), are the same ten principles the Radical Left are advocating today. The ten principles are:
1. State control of real property.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of the country’s financial system in the hands of the state.
6. State control of means of communication and transportation.
7. Increase state control over means of production.
8. Equal liability of all to work.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.
10. Free education.

The goal of Marxism is the disappearance of all class distinctions and all production being placed in the hands of the state, the citizenry dependent on the state to supply their every need from the womb to the tomb. It is clear to see, this nation is marching toward Marxism.

Now the other side of the socialistic coin. While the Radical Left paint a bright picture of the state providing one’s every need, the other side of Marxism is not spoken of today….a godless society that has no need for religion or a Supreme Being of any kind…the state is supreme.

The goal of Marxian proponents is to not only change the economic system of the USA, but to rid society of any reference to Deity. Marx wrote in 1841 that he was “against all gods, heavenly and earthly, who do not acknowledge the consciousness of man as the supreme divinity…Religion is only the illusory sun…. Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other words, religion is the self-consciousness and self-feeling of man who has either not yet found himself or has already lost himself. Religion is the opium of the people…. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness” (Marx, On Religion, 1841, 41-42).

Marx saw Christianity as a barrier to his economic system, and called for its abolition. He believed where Christianity flourished it served as a “superstructure for capitalism.” He saw Christianity as an enemy of the state because the principles of Christianity embraced the individual spirit over the state and each person’s right to work hard, and with God’s help, to engage in producing through entrepreneurial endeavors, create and develop economic ventures (Marx, On Religion, 135).

In Marxism, socialism can’t thrive where Christianity flourishes, because the individual, who has been created in the Image of God and for whom Christ gave His life, takes priority over the state. Marx called for the dissolution of ideas created in society through its history of “views and conceptions” and replace them with revolutionary new ideas (Marx, On Religion, 88). Marxism espouses revolution.

One would have to be blind not to see there is an orchestrated agenda by the Left to radically change America. The Radical Left and all the movements that have attached themselves to Marxism, are not only seeking to change the economic system of the USA, they are seeking to purge society of its history; in the words of Marx to see the “dissolution of the old conditions of existence.” (Marx, On Religion, 88).  The progressive advancement of Marxism has been like the steady drip of water. We must not be deluded by the peddling of snake-oil by the Left. Will we hold on to what is left of the USA, tattered and torn as She is, or will we head down the road to full-fledged Marxism?  If we choose Marxism (socialism) then we have chosen the road to collapse. It is a godless and economic road of self-destruction.

It is past time we woke up.

Blessings,
Dr. Dan