IN THIS WORLD, BUT NOT OF IT
Christ came and preached the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, a new paradise. But that was 2,000 years ago. Today we seem to have reached an impasse: communism "drew on the philosophies of both Marx and Nietzsch to advance a terrifying counterfeit of the transformation-imperative in ancient Christian cosmology," according to Fr. John Strickland's podcast series "Paradise and Utopia." But the utopia (or rather, "dystopia,") of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin is a gross distortion of paradise.
This world is not our home country, we await an eternal paradise. Nevertheless, here we are, in the land of exile: "Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit. Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and do not be diminished. Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you shall have peace. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets who are in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says the Lord." (Jeremiah 29:4-9) – We must make the best of the world we're in! Don't pay any attention to either the Marxist utopian fantasies, or to those who want us to retreat into a "holy huddle" having nothing to do with the world outside.
Why is it that communism's utopian dream always degenerates into terror and failure? It's because it denies the reality of human nature: watch the video "Konstantin Kisin: what the communists did to his family and why does communism always end in terror?" and all the videos at the Museum Of Communist Terror. Communism denies the glaringly obvious fact that people are not all equal: some are smart and others foolish, some are ambitious and others lazy, some are honest and others are devious, etc. So for a government to make them equal requires force or the threat of force to make people equal, to "level the playing field" by denying the smart, honest, and ambitious the reward for their labor.
Few people know that building Karl Marx's utopia was attempted as early as 1848 in Germany and again in 1870 in France, not just in 1917 in Russia. In fact, Marx believed that Russia would be the last place for a communist revolution because it was an agrarian society with hardly any industrial proletariat. But part and parcel of communist revolutions has been sexual revolution against Judeo-Christian morality regarding marriage and family. Marx developed his dystopian economic and social worldview because of the dislocation caused by the industrial revolution, so he posited the need for a new revolution to correct the inequalities caused by industrialization, including the suppression of women. Lenin's commune in Switzerland practiced open sexual relationships.
In earlier, agrarian societies, men and women were both producing material wealth: men mostly worked in the fields while women mainly worked in the home weaving fabric, preparing and preserving foods, and raising future farmhands. But with the industrial revolution, manufacturing of fabrics overtook the home looms, mainly men and older children worked in factories to earn money, and women became dependent on men for money and livelihood, as the podcast "Feminism Ep.1: The Paradox" explains. This exacerbated the already-existing patriarchal social structure and suppression of women.
The article "OPPRESSION, INHERITANCE AND PRIVATE PROPERTY: MARXISM AND THE FAMILY" describes this Marxist view: "Capitalism didn’t create the idea of the family or the idea of the man dominating the woman. It has inherited it from previous societies. But it finds it to be a very useful tool. It’s useful for dividing the working class and for mobilising backwards layers in moments of class struggle.Capitalism, however, also lays the basis for women’s liberation. In what sense? Through the development of the productive forces, by bringing women into production itself. It's through capitalism that the basis is created for the final overthrow of this form of the family. True liberation will come through a radical transformation of society."
Further, Karl Marx advocated for the abolishing of the traditional family structure: “'On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie,' he writes. Best of all, abolishing the family would be relatively easy once bourgeois property was abolished. 'The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.'” (Source: "5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)")
From this, we can see the intimate connection between Marxism and the Feminist movement. But surprisingly, feminism does not bring happiness. As the "Feminism Ep.1: The Paradox" podcast explains, exhaustive study after exhaustive study show that as more and more women gain postgraduate degrees than men and more women earn more and more money, they actually become less happy. Why does this strange paradox occur? The podcaster says it is because women inherently crave to be cared for and protected by men, not to domineer over them. So we see that Marxist economic dogma contradicts man's economic nature, and the related feminist dogma contradicts woman's psychological nature.
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