The History of Neo-Marxism

All right, everybody, welcome back. Welcome back to Next Week. Thank you guys for watching this. It is, of course, no secret that here at Next Week, we have some pretty unpopular opinions when you line them up besides the popular and the prevalent opinions of our day.

Christianity as the Foundation of Western Civilization

For instance, here's three items. There, there you go, three items. The Bible, a vape cigarette, and the TV show Breaking Bad. Now, out of those three, the popular opinion loves Breaking Bad, but we're the unpopular opinion, and we love the Bible, vape, and Breaking Bad.

You see, we understand that when we walk into the room today, we represent a historic and now unacceptable ideology of the past. We represent here historic Christianity and the remnants of the foundation of Western culture.

Basically, we're like a doctor walking into a Scientology meeting about healing. We know what the sick actually need, but Scientologists are too busy poking people and calling it a touch assist. Now, as much as the world would like to make us into the proverbial redheaded stepchild, there can be no denying the fact that Christianity has been the driving force behind the healing of the world and the advancement of society.

For example, in every nation that the gospel has penetrated, slavery has been abolished, equality has been introduced, and the very creation of television was influenced by a Christian invention. But then Christians started inventing stuff like this.

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I look, I just, I just, I just gotta say it. There's already an app for that. It's called the Bible app. It was the biblical worldview in Wilberforce that challenged slavery and led to its ultimate demise.

Christianity has been the force that led to the equality between tribes or races and equality with women. Modern science got its explosion from the foundations that Christianity provided, and no, we're not talking about the Big Bang.

It was Samuel Morse's specifically Christian worldview and his being catechized by Christian parents that led to the internet. And it wasn't just technology, science, and equality. Take the American experiment, for example.

Christians started this nation. Early on in American history, it was the understanding of the laws and standards of God's justice that informed the minds of Americans. The Bill of Rights and the Constitution, they were founded not upon atheistic, socialistic, or Marxist principles, but upon Christian principles created equal.

Freedom to practice the Christian religion without interference by the state. The biblical view of separation of church and state as two distinct realms under God. The right to defend yourself against evil.

Thou shalt not steal as the basis of private property rights and protection against warrantless searches and seizures like this. Cringe and hashtag ew. The right of the accused to not be required to help their accuser.

Therefore, the right to remain silent. You can thank Christianity for that one. All of this comes from Christianity and biblical standards of social justice. Now, while not a perfect history, aka the Wonder Bible, and a history, of course, filled with broken people being transformed by the power of the gospel, there can be no question about the fact that the culture of the West was fundamentally the culture that Christianity and gospel principles gave us.

From Cultural Christianity to Cultural Decline

Now, that was yesterday. Now, it's today. Today, Western and Christian cultures looked upon much like the Cosby Show. It used to be adored and enjoyed, and now it's only shown on a network at 2 a .m. Of course, the big difference between the Cosby Show and Christianity is Christianity still tries to live by the morals it teaches.

We have a lot of homeschool kids in our audience, and they're saying, what's the Cosby Show, right? Now, there is so much criticism and attack upon the biblical worldview that people are wondering how we could have lost something so valuable so quickly.

If Christianity was a car, then we were confident when we left it parked in a safe spot, and we were sure we would never lose it.

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So, how did we get to a place in which Christian principles of social justice and law are constantly criticized and attacked, and even criminalized?

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Now, everywhere we turn, we see groups of people criticized and set in opposition to one another. The poor versus the rich, feminists versus the patriarchy, blacks versus whites, climate change advocates versus so-called science deniers, and people that think that the moon landing was a hoax versus reality.

You're the one who said you walked on the moon when you didn't. Calling the kettle black, if you ever thought of saying that misrepresented myself. Will you get it away from me? You're a coward and a liar and a thief.

Hashtag don't ever mess with Buzz Aldrin, ever. Now, well, it turns out there is actually a very well-known nefarious view that has been working hard since the last century to eradicate the influence of Christianity by destroying its proxy, the culture of the West.

Marxism, Critical Theory, and the Oppressed Versus the Oppressor

You see, that view historically is called Marxism. You and I know its manifestation today by its popular cultural avatars, cultural or neo-Marxism, social justice warriors, race baiters, and Bernie Sanders.

All right, friends, crash course here. Who was Karl Marx? Well, besides looking like Kris Kringle and Satan's love child, he was the degenerate philosopher who was known best for promulgating one of the most destructive forces of economic and social theories known to mankind in his famous book, The Communist Manifesto.

Communism killed so many people in the last century that it is honestly hard to imagine anyone would be heralding the propaganda of this literal fool. That'd be like eHarmony begging to set up OJ Simpson on a date.

It just doesn't make sense. Now, think about it. Communism has killed over 100 million people. Global warming?

Zero.

Tide pods? Three people. Only three. Now, the kill list from communism far outweighs those from many other bad things, and yet everyone lines up to it like it's the McDonald's of governments. Communism, over 100 million severed.

Karl Marx died in obscurity, but his ideas were picked up later and tried and then failed, yet it tries again and again. It's like anytime Amy Schumer puts out a new movie. It didn't work the first time.

What makes you think it'll work this time? It's important to know Marxism's two primary enemies, Christianity and capitalism. Summarized, destroy faith and private property. Now, early on, Marxists attempted to create conflict in society between the proletariat, the oppressed workers, versus the bourgeoisie, the oppressor.

That was the scenario. The conflict was there. The problem was economic Marxism failed in a culture that was influenced by the biblical worldview with its attempt to put the haves and the have-nots against each other.

See, it doesn't work in communities that believe the Bible when it says, if you don't work, you don't eat. Also, not to be a sluggard and to do what you do to the glory of God and with all of your might.

Also, that little bit about communism killing tons of people, that doesn't help so much.

So look, what happened was that by the end of the 1960s, the evidence that communism was a catastrophic failure was so overwhelming that even the French intellectuals, and we'll return to them later, because the French have a very long-lasting and powerful public intellectual tradition, and so intellectuals there are very influential.

Even the French intellectuals like Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre, the famous philosopher, had to admit by the end of the 1960s that the Stalinist, communist, Maoist experiment, and all of its variants, not just those particular dictators, but all of its variants, was an absolute catastrophic failure.

And then what happened was the postmodernists came onto the scene and they were all Marxists, but they couldn't be Marxists anymore because you couldn't be a Marxist and claim that you were a human being by the end of the 1960s.

And so they started to play a sleight of hand, and instead of pitting the proletariat, the working class, against the bourgeoisie, they started to pit the oppressed against the oppressor, and that opened up the avenue to identifying any number of groups as oppressed and oppressor, and to continue the same narrative under a different name.

It was no longer specifically about economics. It was about power.

See, it morphed. It changed strategy. It made it the oppressed versus the oppressor, and now in America, the conflict is the proletariat, minorities, homosexuals, versus the bourgeoisie, white males, Christians, and capitalists.

Cultural Marxism, or Neo-Marxism now, is the social criticism of society done by the left, rooted in the techniques of Karl Marx. You see, he was not only an economist, but a sociologist, and historically, they have employed a very effective tactic known as critical theory.

Critical theory seeks to criticize society so much that people are too demoralized to defend their own culture. This critical theory is how Marx's own criticisms of class, religion, and the family were adapted to nearly everything that exists in society.

Critical theory means to criticize. Criticize everything. It's basically the theory of the mother-in-law, only in this case, everybody and everything in society becomes the daughter-in-law, and every day becomes a tension-filled Thanksgiving dinner.

The goal is to divide the church, empower and enlarge government, limit private property, and to destroy Christianity via a proxy, the culture of the West. In 1933, the Marxist Frankfurt School fled from German society to New York.

They applied, ultimately, critical theory. The popular Studies in Prejudice led to the influential book in 1950 called The Authoritarian Personality. This is the book that argued that the American people exhibited many fascist traits, and that people who supported the traditional American culture were psychologically imbalanced.

You ever wonder why we hear the constant refrain now of fascist and about the popular diversity and sensitivity training? Critical theory has overwhelmed us and effectively brought us to our knees. Neo-Marxism thrives on creating class warfare.

It must destroy society and recreate it. Sounds something like a comic book villain would try, right? That's the go-to strategies for all villains, like Lex Luthor, The Joker, George Soros. You see, we all need to be honest.

The Marxists have been very effective. Embrace it because it's true. They have infiltrated nearly every major academic institution and the media with their corrupt worldview. Just think about it. Feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, eco-criticism.

This is Marxism at its very best. This is how we lost so much of the assumed biblical principles over the last two generations. But worse yet, critical theory and racial conflict now have even been brought into the church.

Due to the Neo-Marxist tactics and strategies, we have the introduction of this oppressor versus the oppressed within the Christian community itself. It's made its way into the church by way of two discussions, race and homosexuality.

The claims about white sin and white oppression and guilt are prevalent and are creating divisions, racial divisions within the Christian community and churches that honestly, I've not seen in my entire lifetime.

I mean, it really is fascinating, friends. Christianity has always taught that every human person is part of the one human family. All of us have the same original parent. No, not that original parent, contrary to the atheists, the actual original parent.

We're talking about Adam and Eve here, guys. The glory of the gospel is that God is reconciling the world to himself through the cross of Jesus Christ. That's where we all meet and the ground there is level.

The Bible teaches that Christ brings all the families of the earth back to God together. Every tribe, tongue, people, and nation. There is neither male nor female, slave nor free, Jew nor Greek. We're all one in Jesus.

The Christian worldview rejects the notion that we amplify our distinctions to the point of division. It says that we're one.

Martin Luther King Jr., Protestant Liberalism, and the Christian Answer to Racism

So MLK grew up in Ebenezer Baptist Church, again, a son of the Black Baptist Church and the Black Baptist Church tradition. He goes off to Morehouse College and really in his early days of Morehouse, he went under a kind of a crisis of faith in which he was wondering whether or not the faith that he had been taught within the Black Baptist Church tradition really could adequately address the social sufferings of his people, African Americans.

And so he struggled with that. He also was in some ways embarrassed by what he thought of as the emotionalism of the Black Baptist Church tradition. And so he went to Morehouse and he struggled for the first few years of his days at Morehouse, was an average to below average student at best.

And then he met a guy named George Kelsey and he took an intro to the New Testament course under George Kelsey. And it was there that he began to have his first real engagement with what we might call Protestant liberalism.

But it was Protestant liberalism that was critically engaged. In other words, it was Protestant liberalism that used the categories of Protestant liberalism in order to try to address the Black social situation.

And that's when King sort of regained confidence in the ability of pastoral ministry and the gospel to address the Black social situation. And he sort of said, look, if this is what ministry is, then I want to be a minister.

Now, of course, I have to say this. We are so grateful for the equality and the social change that took place as a result of Dr. King's and many people's labor. But I have to say that Protestant liberalism denies the deity of Christ, the physical resurrection of Jesus, even that Christ even actually existed.

It denies the inerrancy of Scripture, the inspiration of Scripture. That is not an appropriate Christian launching point for social justice. It's just not. Now, that's not to say, though, that tribalism and hatred doesn't exist and doesn't need to be addressed.

By the way, that's how we should describe the sin and evil of racism. There's only one human race, y 'all, and all of us, red and yellow, black and white, come from the very same place. Racism is ultimately hatred.

That's the biblical definition. Hatred for another human being because of the color of their skin is a wicked sin that people will be judged by God for and be put in hell for. See, the answer is not creating racial division within the church of God, the kingdom of God, and condemning an entire color for the sins committed by people of their color.

The answer is the gospel. Repentance over our sinful condition and the hatred in our hearts for other image bearers of God. Hatred, hatred like this.

Look at this fuckery in a black-owned restaurant. Look at the fuckery. Y 'all together, like in an intimate relationship?

Really?

You couldn't find no black woman? Like, you have to go that low to the lowest rung of humanity? If they're even humans, it's arguably that they're even humans.

Hatred that's like this.

I don't like Mike. Well, okay, I'm gonna say that he's, looks like he's native Texas and being from Texas, I would have to support that. But I don't like him on the fact that he's black. Absolutely not.

David, please, please.

I knew this was gonna come. I don't like him because he's black.

Are you even serious right now?

You know, I'm a minority, but I got a problem.

I was gonna say. You're like a minority yourself. Absolutely.

And brace yourselves for this one, guys. Hatred like this. This is evil. Evil that people of every color have to contend with. It's not the only evil we need to seek God's standards and justice over. As Christians, we ought to condemn the injustice of police brutality, abuse of power, and the unjust killing of young black men.

That's called murder. The solution is condemning the unjust standards that police officers are holding to. The solution is, of course, the gospel. However, we have revelation from God that tells us what true justice looks like.

We aren't going to arrive at true social justice when we ignore God's revealed standards and appeal to the class warfare and arbitrary standards of socialists, leftists, Marxists, humanists, and arbitrary standards of the world.

Don't believe that there is a concerted effort to create class warfare and the narrative, the neo-Marxist narrative of the oppressor and the oppressed. Well, I mean, maybe I'm just being an alarmist.

Maybe I just have a tinfoil hat. Maybe I'm just slightly out of touch. And maybe I'm just ignoring all the facts. White people are dangerous, y 'all. The horror story. We need Christ. We need his cross.

We need his forgiveness and his power to resurrect and make all things new. In Scripture, in the New Testament itself, we find racial conflict. It's there. We find racial animosity. We find the collision of foreign cultures.

We never find the inspired apostles appealing to the standards of the world that amplify our differences and create division and bitterness. What do we find? We find this word, but now you must put them all away.

Anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Here, there, listen closely to this, is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free, but Christ is all and in all. Put on then as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another.

And if one has a complaint against another, forgiving one another as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these, put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called, listen closely, in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another, singing in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

And whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Brothers and sisters, friends, that's how you solve the problem of racial animosity and brokenness.

It is only available through Christ. That's it right now for next week, guys. Stay with us, very important guests coming up right now. Thank you for watching. Like and share the episode. We'll see you in a minute.

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