The challenge of cultural Marxism to the Church

Jun 21, 2018 by

by Gavin Ashenden, Jerusalem 2018:

My Google alert recently warned me I was in the news. This time is was the Toronto star. An Op-Ed journalist had come across some of my writing and excoriated me for worrying about Cultural Marxism. There is no such thing he scornfully insisted.

In a technical sense he has a point. Marx didn’t write much about culture. In any other sense, he is on a different planet. The egalitarian redistribution Marx planned for at the hand of the all-powerful state, has simply morphed into an assault on our culture, instead of being channeled through economics and class warfare. Same aim; just a different route.

It was the experience of reading Solzhenitsyn that first acquainted me with the evils of Marxism, and it’s vitriolic opposition to both Judaism and Christianity.

I encountered the dictatorship of Marxism as I carried bibles and theology books behind the Iron Curtain to help sustain the severely persecuted Christians. The control and repression of the Marxist state was murderous, brutal and total.

(If our analysis is correct, the Christians in the Russia may soon need to return the favour and smuggled soon to be banned Christian books and bibles {see hate crime} to us in the UK.)

But whilst Marxism has collapsed in the Soviet Union (Marx was after all a poor economist and his redistributive state didn’t work) the project has returned in a different form to assault the West, but stealth instead of by force, by a subversion of culture rather than the rise of the proletariat.

In Russia we saw (through the eyes of those who escaped the censor) that same determination to change Judaeo-Christian culture once the revolution had tightened its grip. It consisted of an assault on the family, on free thought, on worship, on language of faith.

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