The pervasive influence of Socialism, why it is intentionally antithetical to Christian values and beliefs, and the insidious effects that can be expected in American society if it is left unchecked.
👏👏👏 A tremendous and on-point analysis, Dr. Martin! Socialism is indeed a trick by the Devil to lure us into supporting something truly evil and demonic by dressing it up in the language of Christianity. This is what happened in NYC and Seattle where Zahran Mamdani and Katie Wilson were elected respectively. But here’s the thing guys: socialism no matter what form it takes Communism, internationalist socialism or National Socialism, will always end the same with bloodshed and misery. Party officials replace the wealthy as the upper class while the average person slaves away for fourteen hours day for meager wages and they have incentive to work hard because they can’t rise any higher as if they try they’ll bump their head on the proverbial glass ceiling.
Socialism plays on one of humanity’s great vices, jealousy. It encourages you to resent someone else for what they have and to cover it. Those folks are the oppressors and they must be punished and everything confiscated from them. With any socialist regime there is always an us vs. them narrative. An oppressor and an oppressed. With the Nazis, the Jews were the oppressor thus why the Holocaust happened. In the USSR, it was the Kulaks or large landowners whom Lenin had slaughtered like animals. In Vietnam, it was the ethnic Chinese minority who the Communists hated and saw as stealing wealth that belonged to the Vietnamese people and who were closely aligned with the United States and South Vietnam.
No matter what example I use, socialism never ends well. Also, yes, the Nazis were socialists albeit their own unique brand of it. Yes, there are parallels between Fascism and Nazism but they are technically two distinct ideologies. The results of socialism speak for themselves. Six million Jews and five million others murdered in Nazi Germany, twenty million murdered in the Soviet Union and sixty five million murdered in Mao’s China. Not to mention Pol Pot murdered one-third of the Cambodian population. It was so bad Communist Vietnam next store had to intervene to put a stop to it in 1978. Ask people in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, Poland, The Baltic States, Cuba, Venezuela, Ukraine, Belarus, North Korea, and Ethiopia how socialism worked out for them.
Make no mistake about it, socialism is totally antithetical to Christian doctrine. No, Jesus was not a socialist and he would’ve been horrified if he ever read Marx or learned what beasts like Stalin or Mao did. Classical Marxist theory with its idea of the proletariat never really caught on in the United States because people surprise, surprise are happy if their children do better then them. So they replaced it with once again, the oppressor-oppressed dichotomy just in another form. Now instead of the rich being the oppressor it’s white straight Christian men. The oppressed are people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and many others. The former are totally irredeemable. The latter will always be powerless to rise out of their oppressed status and are totally helpless and can’t do anything for themselves. Hey guys, newsflash! This is America where anyone can succeed if they are willing to work hard. Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Alaskan Natives, Arabs, women, LGBTQ+ people, and disabled people are just as capable as straight white men are of making something of themselves in this great country of ours. I am a disabled person myself. Did I face bullying, social ostracism, paternalistic ableism, and open discrimination because of that? Yes. But I never let it stop me from graduating high school and college summa cum laude, earning a Bachelor’s Degree and finding a great job I love. I faced hurdles as a disabled person but I overcame them with the opportunities America gave me. Was it easy? No. But I did and so can anyone else.
Stuff like CRT, African-American Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Africana Studies, Trans Theory, Fat Studies, etc. are things we don’t need and those disciplines should all be abolished. Stop breaking people into identity groups! We’re all Americans! None of this is to say we shouldn’t study the histories of minority groups or ignore legitimate discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or level of ability when it occurs. But it is rather to say we need to stop teaching young people they are oppressed and have no chance in America because of who they are. In general, we should teach minority groups empowerment and patriotism, not victimhood and identity politics. That will never make their lives better. In America, we may start in different places but we can end up at the same destination. You know I remember seeing on Larry Elder’s Show a segment where he talked about a fascinating expose done in Ebony Magazine. It was entitled “If I Were Young Today” and it interviewed prominent black figures on what advice they would give young blacks people to find success today.
Architect Paul Revere Williams, Labor Organizer A. Philip Randolph and Judge Advocate Herman Moore of Louisiana we’re all interviewed and in their advice to black youth curiously, none ever said that “the man is gonna hold you back, so why even try?” This was in the 1960s when systemic racism very much existed and Jim Crow had only recently been ended. They were aware of the situation, but they still felt black people had a duty to overcome. That is the attitude we need to instill in minority youth. I agree that Christians must get involved in politics and that this is our fight too. As to education, parents must pay close attention to what they’re kids are learning in school and be prepared to pushback if necessary. I encourage all parents to join the PTA and the School Board. The public school system needs comprehensive reform and we need to implement school choice. CRT, ethnic studies and gender ideology need to be removed the curriculum at all schools. BLM and Pride flags should be banned from the classroom. No, you can’t change your gender if you choose to. That’s total nonsense! Yes, black people absolutely can be racist. Allow me to provide some examples.
How about during the 1992 LA Riots when Damian “Football” Williams hit Reginald Denny in the head with a brick because he was white? How about when in 1996 during a hearing in the California legislature, State Senator Diane Watson said to activist Ward Connery who is also black who was fighting to abolish affirmative action in the state, “let me tell you something the reason you don’t support affirmative action is because you don’t have any ethnic pride. You’re married to a white woman, you want to be white!” Does that sound like racism to you? How about the recent incident in which a black man DeCarlos Brown, Jr. slashed the throat of a white Ukrainian woman Iryna Zatruska in the middle of a public transport in Chicago and as he left declared “I got that white girl!” How about the Zebra Murders of 1973-74 where four black men went around murdering whites and Asians purely because of their skin color? How about when Al Sharpton called black conservatives “cocktail negroes?” How about when a predominately black audience threw Oreos at RNC Chairman Michael Steele for being a Republican? In other words calling him black on the outside and white on the inside. I could go on and on.
We’ve got to make sure our kids are learning a balanced view of American history, warts and all. Neither whitewashed nor all warts. It’s absolutely true that the way American history was taught in the 20th Century was jingoistic, whitewashed and overly-simplistic. But they way we teach it today is just as bad in the other direction. It is taught in a woke, politically correct way today where America is essentially portrayed as all warts. An evil, tyrannical, racist, imperialistic entity that inflicted nothing but misery on all mankind. The 1619 Project with its bunk, Afrocentric revisionist history is a great example of this as is Ken Burns’ documentary on the American Revolution. Yes, the United States has many dark chapters in its past. Be it slavery, Jim Crow, women being denied the vote, Eugenics, the forced dispossession of the Native Americans, the Japanese Internment Camps, not admitting Jewish refugees into the country during the Holocaust, or groups like the Ku Klux Klan or the German-American Bund. But there are also many inspiring and triumphant chapters in American history as well. Such as our victory in the Revolution, the hammering out of our Constitution in Philadelphia, the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal and Hoover Dam, the abolition of slavery in 1865, women obtaining the vote in 1920, defeating the Axis Powers, freeing millions of oppressed people around the world and ending the Holocaust, recognizing Israel in 1948, putting a man on the moon, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fair Housing Bill of 1965, the Berlin Airlift, the Marshall Plan, winning the Cold War, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, legalizing gay marriage, pushing Ba’athist Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991, toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003, holding off the Taliban in Afghanistan for 20 years, bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer, and the capture of Nicolas Maduro.
Great analysis!!! Go ROD!
👏👏👏 A tremendous and on-point analysis, Dr. Martin! Socialism is indeed a trick by the Devil to lure us into supporting something truly evil and demonic by dressing it up in the language of Christianity. This is what happened in NYC and Seattle where Zahran Mamdani and Katie Wilson were elected respectively. But here’s the thing guys: socialism no matter what form it takes Communism, internationalist socialism or National Socialism, will always end the same with bloodshed and misery. Party officials replace the wealthy as the upper class while the average person slaves away for fourteen hours day for meager wages and they have incentive to work hard because they can’t rise any higher as if they try they’ll bump their head on the proverbial glass ceiling.
Socialism plays on one of humanity’s great vices, jealousy. It encourages you to resent someone else for what they have and to cover it. Those folks are the oppressors and they must be punished and everything confiscated from them. With any socialist regime there is always an us vs. them narrative. An oppressor and an oppressed. With the Nazis, the Jews were the oppressor thus why the Holocaust happened. In the USSR, it was the Kulaks or large landowners whom Lenin had slaughtered like animals. In Vietnam, it was the ethnic Chinese minority who the Communists hated and saw as stealing wealth that belonged to the Vietnamese people and who were closely aligned with the United States and South Vietnam.
No matter what example I use, socialism never ends well. Also, yes, the Nazis were socialists albeit their own unique brand of it. Yes, there are parallels between Fascism and Nazism but they are technically two distinct ideologies. The results of socialism speak for themselves. Six million Jews and five million others murdered in Nazi Germany, twenty million murdered in the Soviet Union and sixty five million murdered in Mao’s China. Not to mention Pol Pot murdered one-third of the Cambodian population. It was so bad Communist Vietnam next store had to intervene to put a stop to it in 1978. Ask people in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, Poland, The Baltic States, Cuba, Venezuela, Ukraine, Belarus, North Korea, and Ethiopia how socialism worked out for them.
Make no mistake about it, socialism is totally antithetical to Christian doctrine. No, Jesus was not a socialist and he would’ve been horrified if he ever read Marx or learned what beasts like Stalin or Mao did. Classical Marxist theory with its idea of the proletariat never really caught on in the United States because people surprise, surprise are happy if their children do better then them. So they replaced it with once again, the oppressor-oppressed dichotomy just in another form. Now instead of the rich being the oppressor it’s white straight Christian men. The oppressed are people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and many others. The former are totally irredeemable. The latter will always be powerless to rise out of their oppressed status and are totally helpless and can’t do anything for themselves. Hey guys, newsflash! This is America where anyone can succeed if they are willing to work hard. Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Alaskan Natives, Arabs, women, LGBTQ+ people, and disabled people are just as capable as straight white men are of making something of themselves in this great country of ours. I am a disabled person myself. Did I face bullying, social ostracism, paternalistic ableism, and open discrimination because of that? Yes. But I never let it stop me from graduating high school and college summa cum laude, earning a Bachelor’s Degree and finding a great job I love. I faced hurdles as a disabled person but I overcame them with the opportunities America gave me. Was it easy? No. But I did and so can anyone else.
Stuff like CRT, African-American Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Africana Studies, Trans Theory, Fat Studies, etc. are things we don’t need and those disciplines should all be abolished. Stop breaking people into identity groups! We’re all Americans! None of this is to say we shouldn’t study the histories of minority groups or ignore legitimate discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or level of ability when it occurs. But it is rather to say we need to stop teaching young people they are oppressed and have no chance in America because of who they are. In general, we should teach minority groups empowerment and patriotism, not victimhood and identity politics. That will never make their lives better. In America, we may start in different places but we can end up at the same destination. You know I remember seeing on Larry Elder’s Show a segment where he talked about a fascinating expose done in Ebony Magazine. It was entitled “If I Were Young Today” and it interviewed prominent black figures on what advice they would give young blacks people to find success today.
Architect Paul Revere Williams, Labor Organizer A. Philip Randolph and Judge Advocate Herman Moore of Louisiana we’re all interviewed and in their advice to black youth curiously, none ever said that “the man is gonna hold you back, so why even try?” This was in the 1960s when systemic racism very much existed and Jim Crow had only recently been ended. They were aware of the situation, but they still felt black people had a duty to overcome. That is the attitude we need to instill in minority youth. I agree that Christians must get involved in politics and that this is our fight too. As to education, parents must pay close attention to what they’re kids are learning in school and be prepared to pushback if necessary. I encourage all parents to join the PTA and the School Board. The public school system needs comprehensive reform and we need to implement school choice. CRT, ethnic studies and gender ideology need to be removed the curriculum at all schools. BLM and Pride flags should be banned from the classroom. No, you can’t change your gender if you choose to. That’s total nonsense! Yes, black people absolutely can be racist. Allow me to provide some examples.
How about during the 1992 LA Riots when Damian “Football” Williams hit Reginald Denny in the head with a brick because he was white? How about when in 1996 during a hearing in the California legislature, State Senator Diane Watson said to activist Ward Connery who is also black who was fighting to abolish affirmative action in the state, “let me tell you something the reason you don’t support affirmative action is because you don’t have any ethnic pride. You’re married to a white woman, you want to be white!” Does that sound like racism to you? How about the recent incident in which a black man DeCarlos Brown, Jr. slashed the throat of a white Ukrainian woman Iryna Zatruska in the middle of a public transport in Chicago and as he left declared “I got that white girl!” How about the Zebra Murders of 1973-74 where four black men went around murdering whites and Asians purely because of their skin color? How about when Al Sharpton called black conservatives “cocktail negroes?” How about when a predominately black audience threw Oreos at RNC Chairman Michael Steele for being a Republican? In other words calling him black on the outside and white on the inside. I could go on and on.
We’ve got to make sure our kids are learning a balanced view of American history, warts and all. Neither whitewashed nor all warts. It’s absolutely true that the way American history was taught in the 20th Century was jingoistic, whitewashed and overly-simplistic. But they way we teach it today is just as bad in the other direction. It is taught in a woke, politically correct way today where America is essentially portrayed as all warts. An evil, tyrannical, racist, imperialistic entity that inflicted nothing but misery on all mankind. The 1619 Project with its bunk, Afrocentric revisionist history is a great example of this as is Ken Burns’ documentary on the American Revolution. Yes, the United States has many dark chapters in its past. Be it slavery, Jim Crow, women being denied the vote, Eugenics, the forced dispossession of the Native Americans, the Japanese Internment Camps, not admitting Jewish refugees into the country during the Holocaust, or groups like the Ku Klux Klan or the German-American Bund. But there are also many inspiring and triumphant chapters in American history as well. Such as our victory in the Revolution, the hammering out of our Constitution in Philadelphia, the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal and Hoover Dam, the abolition of slavery in 1865, women obtaining the vote in 1920, defeating the Axis Powers, freeing millions of oppressed people around the world and ending the Holocaust, recognizing Israel in 1948, putting a man on the moon, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fair Housing Bill of 1965, the Berlin Airlift, the Marshall Plan, winning the Cold War, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, legalizing gay marriage, pushing Ba’athist Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991, toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003, holding off the Taliban in Afghanistan for 20 years, bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer, and the capture of Nicolas Maduro.
Here’s some recommended reading for everyone on how evil socialism truly is:
• The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
• Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
• Stalin’s Genocides by Norman M. Naimark
• Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR by Vadim Z. Rogovin
• Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 by Yang Jisheng
• Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short
• Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him by Humberto Fontova
• Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant by Humberto Fontova
• KGB: The Inside Story by Christopher Andrew & Oleg Gordievsky
• Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
• The Berlin Wall: August 13, 1961-November 9, 1989 by Frederick Taylor
• Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror by Victor Sebestyen
Excellent, excellent, excellent!