Socialism coming to America!

I have been reading a series by Peter Kreeft where Socrates meets different people from the past: Jesus, Sartre, Marx, and Machiavelli. I have just finished reading Socrates Meets Marx, and I found the ending very interesting, especially with elections coming very soon.

The crux of the book is that Marx meets Socrates after his death and they go through his Manifesto that he wrote regarding communism. The book was very good and not only informs, but teaches how to truly debate in a fashion where truth is the end result. All Christians could learn from these books as the end being truth is ultimately, Christ.

At the end of the book, Socrates cites directly from Marx’s book regarding how Communism can best infiltrate society. I am going to list it verbatim.

"1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State. . . .
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. . . . . Gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools" (Socrates Meets Marx, 191).

Can you pick the points out that America is already following and which party and people are pushing several of these points as we speak?

I typically tell people that you should pick based on who is lining up with the absolute truth we learn from Scripture. If their record and cultural life demonstrates those principles then we can feel partially assured that other areas will be dealt with in the same fashion.

I am not a conspiracy theorist, but if the shoe fits then we need to wear it. And reading some of these points, it makes me a little worried as to what is happening in America with the policies we are voting into law.

Today we are seeing the first principle taking more and more affect through the “eminent domain” laws. Government is taking private property for the shear purpose of making money. Some of congress continues to try to vote in more taxes and making it more difficult for the average person to make a living. And they try to say they are only going to tax the rich, but ultimately it will affect the middle and lower class the most. The rich tend to own the companies and they are going to make their salaries, as they own the company. They will just make cuts in employee packages or fire people to make sure the profit is there to make their salary. Tax burden does not solve anything, but only makes one more dependent on the government.

There are a couple of other points that America is heading down, but I will only focus on the last one, and that is free public education for all children. The free school system is where our children can be indoctrinated in any form the government wants, as it controls the education department. Whoever controls our children’s minds controls the future in some respects. Just look at where we are at today and then take a look at how the education system has changed over the years. You will see a direct correlation.

It is important to know Biblical truth and standards and then use those to determine whom you will vote for in elections, as they will be our representatives. All morals are legislated, it is just a matter of whose morals will be indoctrinated into our country.

Romans 1:28, “Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.”

If we do not start engaging our culture with absolute truth according to the absolute standards of the Bible, we are going to end up on the wrong side of God. We are going to get what we ask for, God or not?