Kimnach: Why Socialism Is Incompatible With The American Spirit

By Bonnie Kimnach, NH Journal

Before one closes the door on the American Dream of prosperity, freedom and human rights, read “The Communist Manifesto,” published in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Do you know what Marxian socialism is? Socialists profess devotion to the working class by advocating class and race distinctions and conflicts to develop benevolence and cooperation with the state, or government, that will lay the future to human causes.

As founders of modern communism, Marx and Engels viewed religion as untrue and as the enemy of socialism. This Marxist atheism, referred to as the “red dragon,” means that history is eliminated to form a new system of economic interpretations of history. This means that all human life — political, cultural, religious and social — and the norms of the existing systems for producing and distributing goods are the cause of class and race distinctions blamed on economic struggles.

Starting with the earnings of the rich and infiltrating every person’s private property, Marx claimed that the oppression suffered by the people was caused by capitalists and their “bourgeois institutions.” He would sweep away all private property ownership and substitute communism to confiscate, among other things, railroads, mines, factories, banks and public utilities as “social” property. No more private anything! Marx assured his followers that suffering workers would grow stronger based on everyone contributing to the “cause,” and that the uprising against capitalists would create a new society.

Karl Marx’s ultimate vision was to first transition to socialism, intended to gain the pity and support of the working class, and then seize private ownership and replace it with public ownership. This would suppress the capitalist classes and reorganize society, with less than 5 percent of the population serving as administrative elites given powerful management capabilities to dole out resources for redistribution. In Marx’s theory, this would eliminate social classes and inequalities.

History proves that the communist movement contained anarchists, revolutionaries and syndicalists who used force, intimidation and violence to attain their ends. It was not long before an underground market became a reality because human beings could no longer obtain their basic needs. Several countries embrace socialism and communism with more centralized political structures, yet they still rely on capitalist markets to manage their economies.

Wake up, America! A fully state-planned socialist-communist economy results in economic failure and societal collapse. Is the desire for a city or nation to suffer shortages of goods and services and have stricter laws that criminalize personal freedoms and privacy? Authoritarian coercion disincentivizes a person’s innovative prospects for personal gain because people are forced to contribute to “state” causes. Human freedom diminishes, leading society down a less luminous pathway to nowhere.

Americans have always striven for incentives and rewards for hard work that are distinctive to the American character of creativity and contributions toward greatness, not despair. The red dragon presents too many human contradictions adverse to basic needs, desires and achievements that clash with state-owned political maneuvering.

Americans’ fierce independence embodies traits of emotion, nature, logic and spontaneity that will survive and triumph over the lies of socialism and communism because the spirit of America is to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, guaranteeing rights, freedoms and benefits for all generations.

Bonnie Kimnach of Kersearge is a doctoral student of theological studies. She wrote this for NHJournal.com.

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