Communism and the Nation
Things are a little confusing right now in the United States. As President Trumps attempts to implement the policies that Americans want, the Media and Democrat Governors, like Gavin Newsom, and Mayors, like Brandon Johnson, are giving speeches that describe President Trump as a fascist tyrant. Influencers and celebrities are calling for people to stand up against the “injustices” of illegal immigrants being deported. Protests are spreading across the country in response to ICE agents arresting illegal aliens at a Home Depot in Los Angeles several days ago. These protestors, however, are not waving American flags, but the flags of Mexico and many of them are wearing an Arab headdress, the keffiyeh, as they march. Many Americans are already pointing out the absurdity of burning American flags, while carrying the flag of the nation the person fled, in protest of their “right” to stay in the United States.
There is a lot going on and we are flooded with images and videos that are supposedly telling us the real story of what is happening on the ground. There aren’t riots, it’s peaceful. It’s not completely peaceful, there are cars burning. It’s okay that there are cars burning, because those cars are not private property. Public property can be destroyed, but only if the ambiguous “they” say it is okay. Also, don’t forget that behind the protests are families that are being destroyed. And it’s not just illegals being deported, but citizens. And all of the people getting caught up in this are innocent bystanders. There is so much confusion and both media and social media do little to help provide any clarity.
I want to take a step back and look at the larger picture behind the protests, that seem to turn into riots at night. Although these protestors are flying the flag of Mexico, they don’t really have allegiance to Mexico. Not even in the sense that it is their heritage. It might be, but the real allegiance is to an ideal and the Mexican flag is just a prop to show everyone that they don’t really care about the United States. That ideal is communism. The goal is an end to capitalism itself and all governments that uphold a capitalist economy.
President Trump poses a threat to this agenda and the deportation of illegals prohibits the ability to bring about a communist state democratically. Illegals have not been allowed to stay in the U.S. solely on the basis that politicians have empathy for them, but instead see them as ways to maintain political power. If these people can be allowed to vote in our elections, they can help bring about a social revolution through the ballot box. May sound crazy, but have you heard of Venezuela? When the ballot box does not bring about the social changes desired by the communist agenda, their next move is to find reasons for protesting and uprising. Attempting to encourage, and motivate, people to stand up against ‘tryanny’ and ‘oppression.’
In a way, it feels like 2020 all over again. There is a similar online pressure campaign rising, as more and more women (its always seems to be the women) post on social media that “silence is violence” and that saying nothing is being “complicit” in the evils of the Trump dictatorship. Not realizing, for the most part, that they are parroting communist talking points. The people - or the ideology - behind the protests are the same as well. This time around, however, it isn’t about racism, but fascism and imperialism. Instead of needing to proclaim that you are anti-racist, you need to proclaim that you are anti-fascist and anti-imperialist. This tactic against President Trump isn’t new, they’ve just found a new avenue to pursue. Since the BLM thing didn’t seem to work out to much for them.
Regardless, these Mexican flags and keffiyeh, highlight the ideal end goal of communism - the end of the nation and the end of the United States. At least as we know it. Communism has had a global agenda since it became a political ideology. “The Communist Manifesto” written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 was written to “openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies” (Marx 246). It makes sense to go back to this document in order to explain how communism has a global agenda, because it has become a near sacred text for communists.
“The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.”
Communists, according to the Manifesto, believe the capitalist society puts its greedy fingers everywhere in the world to exploit everyone and everything for the gain of money. Because capitalism has colonized all over the world, the antidote to this is communism everywhere. According to the Manifesto, communism is a natural progression of capitalism. After workers have grown tired of being exploited, they will create the social revolution needed to bring about a communist society. They “have a world to win” and can do so through a “forcible overthrow of all social conditions” (Marx 271). Ending with the rally cry - “Working men of all countries, unite!” - there is no question the agenda is a global one.
It is through this overthrow of social conditions that the dismantling of the nation, as we know it, will come about. The “public functions (institutions) will lose their political character and be transformed into the simple administrative function of watching over the true interest of society” (Sowell 146). In other words, the social revolution would bring about a “sufficient spirit of voluntary cooperation to permit a dwindling role for political power and ultimately its extinction. This hoped-for and eventual end to the state” was expressed through the Manifesto as the preconditions needed to achieve the “‘withering away’ of the state” (Sowell 146).
Democracy is considered “important as necessary, but not a sufficient, condition” to bring about the freedom that communism will deliver. Democracy - elections - will lead to the death of the state through the voluntary cooperation across not just the state, but the world. Once the working class frees itself from its bondage, it will also free the nation from the exploitation of other nations. As this class struggle comes to an end within nations, so does the international tensions.
Utopia. Hegemony across nations and around the globe. All through a political ideology that rids the world of borders, exploitation, and oppression.
Theoretically, it sounds great. However, as it has been“ applied in the real world, the intellectual flaws and blemishes too slight to be noticed amid the heady rhetoric become manifest in terms of concrete hunger, terror, and death” (Sowell 215). Look at Russia, China, Vietnam, and Venezuela if you need examples of what has happened so far when communism becomes the leading political ideology of a nation.
It almost seems like human nature to believe that the world can exist, and would be a better place, without borders. We love the idea of the freedom to roam anywhere we please without needing to follow rules or comply to bureaucracy. Yet, reality shows us that order, and borders, are good for society and people. We, like our children, needs boundaries. We need clear distinctions between right and wrong. When things get blurry, anxiety and stress seep into daily life. Almost everyone understands this because it has felt like pure chaos the last twenty years and all that has changed is the attempt of upending our social order through political legislation.
The men and women marching, committing criminal acts, and spreading propaganda online may believe in the fundamental ideals presented in the Communist Manifesto almost 200 years ago. However, the ones paying for this antagonism of the social order are doing so in order to gain more power, control, and probably even more wealth. Although communism provides the feel-good, hippy view of life, where everyone serves everyone and everyone is happy because of it. The reality is humans do not naturally serve, which is why most communist political regimes end up being authoritarian in nature.
In order to achieve a society where everyone serves one another with gladness, each person would need to believe and give their life to Jesus Christ. The difference between giving voluntarily - as the communists would prefer - and giving out of obligation, is a matter of the heart. Jesus knew this 1,848 years before Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto. And there was no talk by Jesus that countries would cease, at least not until his return, if people began to serve others as followers of Him.
As many have stated, when it comes to communist protests, “the cause is never the cause.” As much as these protests seem like they are for the cause of stopping deportations of illegals, the reality is that they are a sign of a larger, ever growing effort to destroy the United States (and the ‘capitalist’ West) and everything about it. Be discerning. Understand what you’re being manipulated to think and feel. And read your Bible. “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2 ESV).
Follow the political tides carefully.
Sources:
Marx, Karl. “The Communist Manifesto.” Karl Marx: Selected Writings, edited by David McLellan, Oxford, 2000, pp. 245-272.
Sowell, Thomas. Marxism: Philosophy and Economics. Unwin Paperbacks, 1985.