Liberating Planet Earth

6 Liberating P&met Earth
reasons suffice: (1) the normal Communist practice of deception;
(2) the need to infuse stagnating Marxist thought with a new religious
impulse; (3) the realization that it is a high-risk strategy to
impose atheism on a religious society prematurely. Let’s look at
each of these.
1. Deception
It is easier to enlist the support of the average citizen if you
disguise your intention to destroy everything he holds dear. The
Communists are out to destroy Western Civilization. Marx said
so from the beginning. Western Civilization is middle class—
“bourgeois”– and the Communists hate it even as they imitate it
and buy Western goods.
Satan is a deceiver. He prefers to use deception. He deceived
Eve. He deceived the nations. He used Biblical citations in hk
major temptations (Genesis 3:1; Matthew 4:6).
2. A Dying Faith
In Communist nations, Marxism is a dead religion. It is a
joke. The idea that Marxism-Leninism is taken seriously in the
Soviet Union or Communist China is a myth indulged in only by
a shrinking number of Western intellectuals.
What Communism has produced is an endless series of crop
failures. In Communist China, it took only two years of partizd
free market agriculture to make that nation an exporter of food,
1983-85, after four decades of starvation. Communism is also the
most efficient producer of bureaucratic inefficiency in history. It
produces bumper crops of cynicism and corruption. Communist
nations systematically and deliberately corrupt their populations.
Guilt-ridden, corrupt populations are easier to control.
The Communists know they can compete with the West only
in terms of sheer military and terrorist power. Those are their specialty
exports in the world economy.
When a religion begins to lose its followers, it must reform itself
or else resort to power and fear to remain dominant. The find
stages of a religion are seen when its followers no longer believe its