Demonstrating that Communism is a Christian heresy.
“Tkachev zeroed in on a mushy contradiction in the Marxian construct: the contradiction between the Marx’s doctrine of the inevitability of the revolutionary cataclysm and proletarian triumph through economic determinism and the need of young revolutionaries to organize and act and play a meaningful role rather than simply to ride passively on ‘the wave of the future.'”
Eugene Methvin
The Rise of Radicalism — pg. 221
Note what is going on here. Marx posited a humanist predestinary note by insisting upon the “inevitability of the revolutionary cataclysm and proletarian triumph through economic determinism,” and yet if all this is predestined then there is nothing that humans need to do to aid what is inevitable. With Marx’s humanist predestination men had become stocks and blocks. Tkachev provides an answer by injecting consciousness into the masses. It is unsatisfactory but it is an answer,
“The very difference between a violent revolution and a so-called ‘gradual-revolution’ lies precisely in the fact that the revolutionary minority is no longer willing to wait, but takes upon itself the task of forcing consciousness upon the people.”
Now first we would add here that appealing to the task of the revolutionary minority to “force consciousness upon the people” is a contradiction in Marxist ideology since Marxism is materialistic and consciousness is non-material.
Overall, Tkachev’s answer here to Marx’s contradiction is that while revolution is indeed inevitable, it can be speeded along by injected consciousness upon the people so that violent revolution speeds along the inevitability of it all. So, Tkachev would help along the Marxian Predestination but of course wouldn’t even the time of predestination be likewise predestined so that Tkachev isn’t really helping speed along the Marxian revolution?
Marx’ works themselves also likewise support the idea that his theory was merely Christian heresy. Marx’s Communist Manifesto capsulized the fundamental concepts of Marxist ideology as,
1.) Marx — The in group-out group identification of the class struggle.
Marxism — Proletariat as in-group. Bourgeoise as out-group.
This parallels the Christian idea of in group-out group identification of the struggle to advance God’s Kingdom
Christianity — Christian as in-group. Non-Christian as out-group.
2.) Marx — The idea of a chosen class
Marxism — Proletariat as the chosen class.
Christianity — The Elect as the chosen class.
3.) Marx — Economic determinism
Marxism — Historical outworking of dialectical materialism
Christianity — Predestination via God’s Ordination
4.) Marxism — Inevitability of Proletarian triumph
Christianity — Inevitability of the triumph of God’s people in the context of God’s Kingdom
5.) Marxism –Obsessive future orientation (fixation on a seductive future that devalues the present)
Christianity — The postmillennial future orientation that avoids a devaluing of the present by understanding that the future is the trajectory of a well lived present.
6.) Marxism — The commitment to violence
Christianity — When the Kingdom of God breaks into this present age it is breaking into the domain of Satan and sin (see Ephesians 2:2) and does so unto overthrowing Satan’s present evil age as by conflict.
In the end, Marxism is merely a Materialistic heresy that owes its origins to Christianity as bastardized by the Serpent.
