Unity and Peace: Part 3

This is a long post, saints.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 (ESV) What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Posting in 2025, we see the downstream effects of this continued effort for human ascension. There have been many players in this pipeline since The Garden of Eden. As you read this, keep Nimrod and the Tower of Babel (part 2) in mind. I thought I was going to write about Christ Consciousness / New Age. But The Lord has Asked me to highlight pertinent concepts from Karl Marx. Communism is, in a sense, a unified hive mind aimed towards humans bringing about utopia on Earth. Marx's writings from the 1800s took Aristotelian conceptualization of man a step further, focusing on that man was both political and civil, therefore the emancipation of man requires broader revolution.

POLITICAL EMANCIPATION OF MAN

Capitalism as slavery

• Aristotle links finance and slavery as a conceptualizations of relationship based on exchange. Marx bridges the gap between slavery and political economy by characterizing the capitalist contract (employment, trade, etc) as institutionalized slavery.

• Marx: "...the ‘free’ worker, owing to the greater development of the capitalist mode of production, makes a voluntary agreement... compelled by social conditions to sell the whole of his active life, his very capacity for labour, in return for the price of his customary means of subsistence, to sell his birthright for a mess of pottage."

• Marx states: “The slavery in which the bourgeoisie holds the proletariat chained is nowhere more conspicuous than in the factory system... Here the employer is absolute law-giver... the courts say to the working man: Since you have freely entered into this contract, you must be bound to it.”

• The aim of the revolution is, the “change of the economic foundation” such that “the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed."

• In “Communist Manifesto.” Marx likens the communist revolution to “the abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom," and consequently, the egoistic man.

• "... the egoistic man is no one but the citizen himself, and the destruction of the former (egoistic man) necessarily entails the destruction of the latter (the citizen)."

• Marx writes that true human emancipation is not only political. It can not be achieved simply by the revolt of the proletariat against the capitalists for transference of power, but demands the dissolution of class altogether. Marx saw the transitional state of a dictatorship of the proletariat as a necessary step in the process ... the “dictatorship of the proletariat” or the “proletariat organized as the ruling class” is not the replacement of capitalism, but the “first step in the revolution.”

• Nevertheless, the revolutionary drive cannot be confined to mere consciousness or ideology. It is “not a mental act,” Marx says, but one arising from material conditions and, therefore, requiring material change, “of practically attacking and changing existing things." This, of course, necessitates dissolution of the capitalist system and the civil society thereof, resulting in emancipation.

• “Political emancipation certainly represents a great progress. It is not, indeed, the final form of human emancipation, but it is the final form of human emancipation within the framework of the prevailing social order”

CIVIL EMANCIPATION OF MAN

"The character of the old civil society was directly political – that is to say, the elements of civil life, for example, property, or the family, or the mode of labor, were raised to the level of elements of political life in the form of seigniory, estates, and corporations. In this form, they determined the relation of the individual to the state as a whole – i.e., his political relation, that is, his relation of separation and exclusion from the other components of society... Thus, the vital functions and conditions of life of civil society remained, nevertheless, political, although political in the feudal sense. " -- Karl Marx

Law and perceived rights as oppression

• For both Aristotle and Marx social harmony is made possible only by relations of friendship that guarantee equality.

• The law, for Aristotle, is nothing more than “a certain order," and it is for this reason that the community of friends—which is by nature inclined towards equality—has no need of law at all.

• Marx: Juridical rights in the capitalist state are nothing more than the rights of capitalism, and the citizen is no one else but the free slave.

• Marx: For proper human emancipation to take place, then, the proletariat requires abrogation (annulment) of juridical rights altogether.

• A Marxist view is man's current state of "egoism" originates from concepts of political and civil rights. The assumption of these rights actually oppresses man's true nature. Including the perceived rights of man: égalité (equality) and sûreté (security).

• Equality, used here in its non-political sense, is nothing but the equality of man as self-sufficient monad (singular metaphysical entity), each man regarded to the same extent.

• The Constitution of 1795 Article 3 (Constitution of 1795): “Equality consists in the law being the same for all, whether it protects or punishes.” For Marx, this is seen as reducing man to individuals, and is a form of oppression of man's ideal state.

• Article 8 (Constitution of 1793): “Security consists in the protection afforded by society to each of its members for the preservation of his person, his rights, and his property.” Security is the highest social concept of civil society (for Marx, to be dismantled). The concept of police expresses the fact that the whole of society exists only in order to guarantee to each of its members the preservation of his person, his rights, and his property. The concept of security does not raise civil society above its egoism. On the contrary, security is the insurance of egoism.

• "[Why] reduce citizenship, and the political community, to a mere means for maintaining these so-called rights of man, that, therefore, the citizen is declared to be the servant of egotistic man, that the sphere in which man acts as a communal being is degraded... and that, finally, it is not man as citizen, but man as private individual [bourgeois] who is considered to be the essential and true man. Practical need, egoism, is the [undesirable] principle of civil society...."

• Sidenote: "Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law" & "Love is the law, love under will" - occultist Aleister Crowley, as he claims was dictated to him by a non-corporeal entity named Aiwass in 1904. I mention this because there's a lot of twisted concepts around "consent" in all this.

• "The limits within which anyone can act without harming someone else are defined by law, just as the boundary between two fields is determined by a boundary post" (referring to the concept of private property which is also seen as oppressive).

• Marx laments that man living in political and civil society degrades man into "... independent individuals – whose relation with one another depend on law, just as the relations of men in the system of estates and guilds depended on privilege..."

Private property and money as oppression

• Marx writes that it is the right to private property in particular that introduces a division of needs, ultimately elevating the need for money as the primary human need: “The need for money is therefore the true need produced by the modern economic system … Private property does not know how to change crude need into human need.”

• In other words, the desire to own private property necessitates the need for money, which drives the capitalist system.

• For Marx, man’s perceived right to liberty is man’s perceived right to private property. "The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and money is a real contempt for, and practical debasement of, nature..."

• It is in this sense that [in a 1524 pamphlet] Thomas Münzer declares it intolerable “that all creatures have been turned into property, the fishes in the water, the birds in the air, the plants on the earth; the creatures, too, must become free.”

• Marx writes "Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world – both the world of men and nature – of its specific value..."

RELIGIOUS EMANCIPATION OF MAN

• "Religion has become the spirit of civil society...It is no longer the essence of community, but the essence of difference (Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, p. 346).

• "In order ... that the state should come into existence as the self-knowing, moral reality of the mind, its distinction from the form of authority and faith is essential. But this distinction emerges only insofar as the ecclesiastical aspect arrives at a separation within itself. It is only in this way that the state, above the particular churches, has achieved and brought into existence universality of thought, which is the principle of its form.” (Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, p. 346).

• "We have, thus, shown that political emancipation from religion leaves religion in existence, although not a privileged religion."

• The displacement of religion from the state and into civil society was an incomplete emancipation. In other words, moving religion from the government into civil / personal life has been a necessary part of the political revolution. But Marxists must not stop there. Because the existence of religion in civil/private life still separates man, as it does not abolish religion from man, but abolishes religion only from government.

• Marx writes "...the people of a Christian state is only a non-people, no longer having a will of its own, but whose true existence lies in the leader to whom it is subjected, although this leader by his origin and nature is alien to it – i.e., given by God and imposed on the people..."

• Marx writes "Political democracy is Christian since in it man, not merely one man but everyman, ranks as sovereign, as the highest being, but it is man in his uncivilized, unsocial form, man in his fortuitous existence, man just as he is, man as he has been corrupted by the whole organization of our society, who has lost himself, been alienated, and handed over to the rule of inhuman conditions and elements ..." (Appears to me to be reference to man in his fallen state after Eden? But Marx's plan is a salvation of man...by man).

• Marx writes "...the state can and must go as far as the abolition of religion, the destruction of religion."

• "How is religious opposition made impossible? By abolishing religion. As soon as Jew and Christian recognize that their respective religions are no more than different stages in the development of the human mind, different snake skins cast off by history, and that man is the snake who sloughed them, the relation of Jew and Christian is no longer religious but is only a critical, scientific, and human relation. Science, then, constitutes their unity. But, contradictions in science are resolved by science itself."

JEWISH EMANCIPATION OF MAN

• Marx writes "Christianity sprang from Judaism. Christianity is the sublime thought of Judaism, Judaism is the common practical application of Christianity, but this application could only become general after Christianity as a developed religion had completed theoretically the estrangement of man from himself and from nature... Only then could Judaism achieve universal dominance and make alienated man and alienated nature into alienable, vendible objects subjected to the slavery of egoistic need and to trading."

• "The Christian has to surmount only one stage, namely, that of his religion, in order to give up religion altogether,” and therefore become free. “The Jew, on the other hand, has to break not only with his Jewish nature, but also with the development towards perfecting his religion, a development which has remained alien to him.” No longer is the question asked: Is it Judaism or Christianity that makes a man free? On the contrary, the question is now: Which makes man freer, the negation of Judaism or the negation of Christianity?"

• According to Marx, the dominance of Christianity, which makes all national, natural, moral, and theoretical conditions extrinsic to man...dissolves the human world into a world of atomistic individuals who are inimically opposed to one another.

• Marx writes "What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. "

• "Selling is the practical aspect of alienation."

• "Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it."

• "Once society has succeeded in abolishing the empirical essence of Judaism – huckstering and its preconditions [selling and money] – the Jew will have become impossible."

• "The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism."

• Marx's conclusion: "In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism."

(https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/) (https://philarchive.org/archive/AHMCAE)

So....how is this in conflict with God / Truth?

1. Denies that each human is made in God's Image.

   Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 5:1-2 and 1 Corinthians 15:47-49

2. Denies that each human is intricately Created by God.

   Romans 8:29 and Psalm 139:13-16 and Luke 12:7

3. Denies man's sin nature.

   Isaiah 53:6 and Ecclesiastes 7:20 and Romans 5:12 and Matthew 19:17

4. Denies need for atonement for reconciliation to God.

   Colossians 1:21-23 and Romans 5:8-11 and Ephesians 2:8 and Ephesians 2:14-16 and Hebrews 10:12

5. Denies God's Sovereignty and Wisdom in oversight of man.

   John 1:12-13 and Exodus 36:1-5 and James 3:15 and Jeremiah 10:23 and Acts 17:26 and Psalms 74:17 and Deuteronomy 32:8

6. Denies man's dominion in Christ.

   Genesis 1 :26 and Psalm 8:4-6 and Ephesians 1:18-21 and Colossians 3:17 and Luke 10:19

7. Erroneously promotes that man can redeem himself through his own efforts.

   Titus 3:5 and Galatians 2:16 and Romans 10:1-4 and Romans 11:6

8. Note that both Islam (Part 1) and Marx specifically name and target Jews and Christians for elimination. Creation cannot be liberated from The Creator with "The People of The Book" around: Jews and Christians, Yahweh's people.

Look around. How much have these antichrist philosophies shaped civilization? Becoming an automatic, subconscious foundation of our perception, interaction, and vision? May we search ourselves, saints. And offer up to God any of these infiltrated constructs embedded in our internal perception and processing.

We must not idolize earthly unity and peace to the point that we are willing to seek one world religion in attempt to achieve a utopia. Humanity concentrating its efforts together to build its own utopia without submitting to God...that's The Tower of Babel. At the end time, early on it will be under the pretense of unity by bringing all religions into one. But ultimately that will be worship of The Beast, not Yahweh.

True Peace reconciles people to God via Jesus. The Church (this is you, saint) must not shrink back for the sake of unity that is really mixture and false peace. The Church must not shrink back in an effort to avoid conflict and the threat of war. The Church must not shrink back in the face of false accusations that exclusionary Judaism and Christianity are the real cause of war.

Rebellion against Yahweh is the cause of all war. Remember that always, saint.

Matthew 10:21-22 21 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, 22 and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Saints, may we feast on The Word, the whole Bible, to know Truth. May we pray for boldness, wisdom, and endurance. To clearly share Truth with a world in desperate need of Life.

Ephesians 5:11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

In Jesus's name!

Christy Hale