Shafarevich and McAtee on Socialism & Insect Social Order

“… at the beginning of this century (20th), attempts to arrange things outside of God and outside of Christ finally appeared. Without the instincts of bees or ants that create their beehives and anthills faultlessly and precisely, people undertook to create a faultless human ant hill…. Socialism aims at organizing human society according to new principles which are compared to the instinctive actions of insect societies.

Igor Shafarevich
Socialist Phenomenon — pp. 251, 252

Shafarevich, more than once, makes the case the Socialism is a distinction eliminating philosophy. That this would be the case is inevitable since Socialism is the anti-religion religion. Socialism is atheism as applied to social order arrangements and as atheism begins with the elimination of the distinction between the Creator and the creature it is inevitable that in order to successfully eliminate that most basic of all distinctions, all other distinctions must likewise be eliminated in a socialist informed social order. Because this is true socialism seeks to eliminate not only the distinctions of class, but also the distinctions between what constitutes family and what doesn’t constitute family, the distinction between differing races, the distinctions between genders and to look at where some of the piercing and tattoo culture is headed, the elimination of distinction between man and animal. The aspirations of all socialist social orders, is to, as Shafarevich writes, organize human society in keeping with the leveling, distinction-less instincts of insect societies.

Now couple the insight that socialistic social orders are merely the incarnations of the atheistic denial of the Creator creature distinction with the insight that with the destruction of the Creator creature distinction the only place left for God to be located, for the socialist, is in the State as the expression of collective humanity and what you get is the reality that the socialist must look for uniformity in the social order since the State, in order to successfully be God, must have divine unity. In a socialist order, all is for the state and nothing is outside the state. If the State is to be God therefore everything must be uniform since all gods have unity of being and purpose. So, not only does Socialism push for insect organization because of its atheistic denial of the Creator creature distinction, but also Socialism must push for insect organization in order to realize the unity of the Godhead that has been located in the State which the social order is to everywhere incarnate.

Many putative Christians can’t seem to get their minds around the idea that whenever they deny God ordained distinctions they have at that moment become more cultural Marxist (the current best selling flavor of socialism) then they are Christian. Those Christians who deny that gender, race, class, or set God defined family exists, in part, or in whole, have embrace the agenda of cultural Marxism.

Author: jetbrane

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