10 Reasons to Reject Socialism By TFP Student Action
Why we
must protect the family, private property and America from the dangers of socialism.
1. Socialism and communism are the same ideology
Communism is but an extreme
form of socialism. From the ideological standpoint, there is no substantial difference between the two. In fact, the communist
Soviet Union called itself the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991) and communist China, Cuba and Vietnam define
themselves as socialist nations.
2. Socialism violates personal freedom
Socialism seeks to eliminate "injustice" by transferring rights and responsibilities from individuals and families
to the State. In the process, socialism actually creates injustice. It destroys true liberty: the freedom to decide all
matters that lie within our own competence and to follow the course shown by our reason, within the laws of morality, including
the dictates of justice and charity.
3. Socialism violates human nature
Socialism is anti-natural. It destroys personal initiative – a fruit of our intellect and free will –
and replaces it with State control. It tends to totalitarianism, with its government and police repression, wherever it is
implemented.
4. Socialism violates private property
Socialism
calls for "redistributing the wealth" by taking from the "rich" to give to the poor. It imposes taxes that punish those who
have been able to take greater advantage of their productive talents, capacity to work or thrift. It uses taxation to promote
economic and social egalitarianism, a goal that will be fully achieved, according to The Communist Manifesto, with the "abolition
of private property."
5. Socialism opposes traditional marriage
Socialism sees no moral reason for people to restrict sex to marriage, that is, to an indissoluble union between
a man and a woman. Furthermore, socialism undermines private property, which Friedrich Engels, founder of modern socialism
and communism along with Karl Marx, saw as the foundation of traditional marriage.
6.
Socialism opposes parental rights in education
Socialism has the State, and not parents,
control the education of children. Almost from birth, children are to be handed over to public institutions, where they will
be taught what the State wants, regardless of parental views. Evolution must be taught. School prayer must be forbidden.
7. Socialism promotes radical equality
A supposed absolute equality among men
is the fundamental assumption of socialism. Therefore, it sees any inequality as unjust in itself. Private employers are
quickly portrayed as "exploiters" whose profits really belong to their employees. As a consequence, they rule out the system
of wage earning.
8. Socialism promotes atheism
Belief
in God, who unlike us is infinite, omnipotent and omniscient, clashes head-on with the principle of absolute equality. Socialism
therefore rejects the spiritual, claiming that only matter exists. God, the soul, and the next life are illusions according
to socialism.
9. Socialism promotes relativism
For
socialism there are no absolute truths or revealed morals that establish standards of conduct that apply to everyone, everywhere,
and always. Everything evolves, including right and wrong, good and evil. There is no place for the Ten Commandments, neither
in the private mind nor in the public square.
10. Socialism mocks religion
According to Karl Marx, religion is "the opium of the people." Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, agreed: "Religion
is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their
demand for a life more or less worthy of man."
May God protect America from socialism.
* * *
Blessed Francisco Jagerstatter had a dream where he
saw a bright train loaded with passengers. There were young children
and adults that go to hell this train was identified by him as the ideology of National Socialism. He found himself yelling
at everyone get off the train before it reaches its final destination, at the same time he found even himself being persuaded and
tempted by priests to climb into the train.
Today this train to hell is brighter and faster; it seduces many
to jump on the bandwagon and ride the road to hell. Everywhere we can see how Socialism has captured the
minds of many even priests who see this train as the solution of
all problems of modern man.
It
is curious that our Lady of La Salette who tells us that Rome will lose
the faith and will host the Antichrist. What she describes is a
socialist society where each individual wants to govern itself where
society promotes this as rebellion against God's law .
* "Given the neglect of the
holy faith of God , each individual will want to be on his own and be superior to their peers .... the
devil will use all his malice to introduce into religious orders
persons given to sin .... The chiefs, the leaders of the people of God ,
have neglected prayer and penance , and the devil has darkened their
minds , have become
wandering stars which the old devil will drag along with his tail to
make them perish ..... the civil governments will have the same plan ,
which will be to abolish and make every religious principle disappear ,
to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and
all sorts of vices ... be abolished civil and ecclesiastical powers ,
all order and all justice will be trampled ... Everywhere will homicides , hate, jealousy , lying and discord , without love for country or for the family. "
