Malachi151
27th May 2003, 06:58 PM
I see many parallels between Christianity and Communism, Jesus and Marx.
When you look at it Jesus, if there was such a person, he was a social revolutionary. I contend that the Biblical Jesus at least represented a movement and a group of people, if not an actual individual.
So, what was the Christian movement initially?
It was one of the first well documented large scale socialist style social revolutions.
"Jesus" was anti-establishment and the leader of social revolution, in this case in a religious context. The real message though is one of equality of the individual, at least within his society, if not also on a larger scale. It was a reaction to class struggle and imperialism, just as Marxism was. Hence, Jesus was the Marx of his day, and Marx was the Jesus of his day.
Now, what happened to the teachings of "Jesus"?
They became institutionalized by the establishment because the establishment saw that the ideas held power with the masses, and thus in order to wield that power and negate its oppositional effect they adopted the name of the Religion.
At this point the social movement was stifled. Now, the ideas of social revolution become institutionalized and in turn were used for social oppression.
This is representative of Marxism.
This is all a process of Social Darwinism.
Its a product of the process of social evolution and the way that society evolves to maintain structure.
A society is like an organism itself, and also like an environment. An environment evolved as do the members of the environment. Environments evolved towards self sustainability. Elements within an environment that are destructive to the environment are selected out through the evolutionary process, so that sustainable systems emerge.
The same is true of society. Social Revolution is selected against by the process of Social Darwinism.
This is why what happened to Christianity and Marxism happened.
The Russians and Chinese, etc institutionalized Marxism in the same way that Rome institutionalized Christianity, with the same effects.
They are both the same things, the beginnings of social revolution that promises equality, but equality is selected again by social forces. This leads to revolutionary institutionalization, whereby revolutionary ideas become a part of the establishment's way to enforce disparity, which is the natural stabilizing condition of human society.
When you look at it Jesus, if there was such a person, he was a social revolutionary. I contend that the Biblical Jesus at least represented a movement and a group of people, if not an actual individual.
So, what was the Christian movement initially?
It was one of the first well documented large scale socialist style social revolutions.
"Jesus" was anti-establishment and the leader of social revolution, in this case in a religious context. The real message though is one of equality of the individual, at least within his society, if not also on a larger scale. It was a reaction to class struggle and imperialism, just as Marxism was. Hence, Jesus was the Marx of his day, and Marx was the Jesus of his day.
Now, what happened to the teachings of "Jesus"?
They became institutionalized by the establishment because the establishment saw that the ideas held power with the masses, and thus in order to wield that power and negate its oppositional effect they adopted the name of the Religion.
At this point the social movement was stifled. Now, the ideas of social revolution become institutionalized and in turn were used for social oppression.
This is representative of Marxism.
This is all a process of Social Darwinism.
Its a product of the process of social evolution and the way that society evolves to maintain structure.
A society is like an organism itself, and also like an environment. An environment evolved as do the members of the environment. Environments evolved towards self sustainability. Elements within an environment that are destructive to the environment are selected out through the evolutionary process, so that sustainable systems emerge.
The same is true of society. Social Revolution is selected against by the process of Social Darwinism.
This is why what happened to Christianity and Marxism happened.
The Russians and Chinese, etc institutionalized Marxism in the same way that Rome institutionalized Christianity, with the same effects.
They are both the same things, the beginnings of social revolution that promises equality, but equality is selected again by social forces. This leads to revolutionary institutionalization, whereby revolutionary ideas become a part of the establishment's way to enforce disparity, which is the natural stabilizing condition of human society.