christians, what about marxism?

Question

specifically do you disagree with? not what people did in the name of marxism of course, but his actual ideal world of no state and people working together and being charitable?(aside from the atheism, which would have been his own personal belief and not mandated) i'm talking about the time of Jesus, not now. they seemed like a pretty marxist group.

Answer 1

It is an unworkable fantasy world too many communist countries have proved it wouldn't work. Fantasy is no good no matter how you try to work it.

Answer 2

Interesting question. There was a time when some Christians used Marxist analysis to try to understand the world. they used it as a tool. They were not Marxists.

Read up on theologies of liberation. See the film "Romero" google Archbishop Oscar Romero, Salvadorian History. Here are some quotes from "Voice of the Voiceless" by Archbishop
Oscar Romero. Maybe you'll find this interesting

liberation will only arrive when the poor are not simply on the receiving end of handouts from the government or from the church, but when they themselves are the masters, the protagonists in, their own struggle for liberation-Father Romero

It is the poor who tell us what the world is, and what the church's service to the world should be. it is the poor who tell us what the polis is. - Father Romero

The church exists to act in solidarity with the hopes and joys, the anxieties and sorrows, of men and women. -romero

There is also something called Christian Anarchism. Tolstoy is considered one. He greatly influenced Gandhi and subsequently Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 3

"And except for that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" You're taking one aspect of what you take to be Marxism and ripping it out of the reality.

But even granted that, I'd disagree with you. They were in no way Marxist, even without the atheism. They freely gave of what they had, and the state did not stand over them keeping it from them. That's why the modern socialist state is not Christian; Christianity tells US what to do, not that the state should steal it all from us.

Answer 4

Significantly, Marx's main attack was not on the idea of God's existence as such, but on God's sovereign dominion over all things. He rejected the Christian doctrine of creation, because he realized that a Creator-God is also a Sovereign God. Marx's philosophical hero was the mythical character, Prometheus, whose battle cry was, "I hate all gods."

Marx's view of history, which has come to be known as "dialectical materialism," is consistent with his rejection of Christianity. History is not the story of God's dealings with men, but the progress of man from one social arrangement to another, from feudalism to capitalism for example. This progress takes place through changes in technology that lead to changes in the way that people are organized for production. Changes in the organization for production in turn lead to ideological and political conflicts between those classes which want to conserve the old order and those which seek to make drastic changes. Revolutionary class conflict, whether peaceful or violent, produces social change.

Answer 5

Marxism failed miserably because humanity was not ready for it. Maybe someday we will realise the only way to get along in peace will be to co-operate with each other. It won't happen for hundreds of years.

Answer 6

If communism actually worked I would be all for it. But never in the history of mankind has it ever worked. Capitalism sucks, but it's better than anything else.

Answer 7

marxism is an atheist ideology

Answer 8

i got some marx in my underwear