Marxism

movement · 12 episodes

206Rome Wants Elbow Room 23 Sep 2024 32:44¶ 93 “For those of you who do not know, as Karl Marx laid out his vision for historical dialectical transformation, the next step from capitalism…” 33:04¶ 94 “He described this as the dictatorship of the proletariat because the proletariat or working class is so oppressed by its capitalist overlords, they will…” 33:29¶ 95 “Yes, it’s a dictatorship, and yes, people are going to be forced to share, and yes, that does mean people are going to take…”

186The Worldview that Shaped Western Civilization 25 Mar 2024 23:42¶ 78 “The 20th century saw the conflict between Marxism on the one hand and something that was supposed to be capitalism on the other. Where…” 24:13¶ 79 “Reality check. No, that’s not what the State has ever done. That’s not what totalitarian regimes have ever done. “They don’t have to be…” 24:35¶ 82 “Well, guess what, there was a time when they meant well, too – or so they claimed or so they thought. But the simple…”

176The Effects of Sin 15 Jan 2024 23:02¶ 70 “And now the Marxists step in and say, “But you know, there’s a problem with that because let’s face it, the reality is that…” 24:05¶ 71 “So history then becomes man trying to come to terms with this, and the true prophets from Plato to Rousseau to Jean Paul Sartre…” 24:54¶ 72 “We need to educate. We need to control the media. We need to know what everybody is doing and thinking. We need to remove…”

135Conspiracy Theory 12 Sep 2022 4:32¶ 12 “The argument goes a couple ways. “History is driven by socio-economic forces and is beyond the reach of any few people, however powerful they…” 4:48¶ 14 “But Marxism says it’s inevitable, and yes, the contradiction. “So come join us and change the world.” 4:56¶ 15 “Wait, it’s all predestined by the laws of dialectical sociology. Huh? Why do I have to do anything? Can’t I just go out for…”

123Loving Them 20 Jun 2022 37:17¶ 114 “This is something we are constantly seeing. Of course, Marx capitalized on this in his approach to class struggle. The oppressing class, the class…” 37:46¶ 115 “And, of course, it’s not a spiritual salvation. It is the salvation of humankind, the workers who are these noble men who do the…” 38:18¶ 116 “Yeah, and we’re seeing it again today in critical race theory, black lives matter, and all that, which are covers for old-fashioned Marxism. This…”

99Hannah 3 Jan 2022 22:24¶ 89 “Where and how does the kingdom of God progress? Along what lines? To what end? And how does it do that? If we’re good…” 30:02¶ 120 “This is not some kind of Marxist-Socialist program where the Proletariat goes out and seizes the means of production and tears down existing structures…” 23:41¶ 94 “That’s something that America in its collective history has faced for a long time. It’s a perversion, a secularization of post-millennialism. It’s Utopianism. “We…”

60Facing Giants 21 Feb 2021 30:40¶ 87 “The first is Marxism. Marxism is a philosophy of economic determinism whereby history itself, the very forces of history, of economics, are pushing mankind…” 31:15¶ 88 “The early communists, particularly in America and in Europe, used this as a selling point to win the unconverts for the cause. “You’re fighting…”

47Moved with Passion 22 Nov 2020 7:25¶ 20 “The old slogan is, “Marxism has failed everywhere it’s been tried, because they didn’t do it right. But let us try it and we’ll…” 7:42¶ 21 “I do always love the hubris of that kind of statement, too. It’s like, “Well, these people – Stalin and Lenin and run down…” 7:55¶ 22 “They weren’t committed enough. They didn’t love people enough. There was some selfishness, some basic capitalistic ideas left in there, but I come with…”

44Yahweh's Bride 1 Nov 2020 32:34¶ 88 “It’s easy since probably the beginning of the 20th century to regard Marxism mostly as an economic heresy. They have the wrong view of…” 33:22¶ 89 “The abolition of marriage, of private property, of the State as it was then constituted, of all traditions – the goal was to wipe…” 32:14¶ 87 “We’re seeing this. It’s coming out into the streets. It’s in our headlines. There was a time when Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto and…”

31Chronology, Community, and Freedom 3 Aug 2020 8:14¶ 30 “Christianity has exercised a strong influence on the Western world, even on Marxism. Some have called Marxism a Christian heresy in that it uses…” 8:31¶ 31 “One thing that it most certainly adopted was a linear view of history, despite the fact that within history it maintained the ideas of…” 8:56¶ 32 “We’re climbing out of the original chaos and from primitive communism into a more advanced form at the end of the age, where everybody…”

29Prince of Egypt (part 3): Of Liberty and Liberation 19 Jul 2020 1:01¶ 3 “Liberation theology is with us in a number of new incarnations that are in our streets of late. It’s good Hegelianism, it’s Marxianism, it’s…” 1:30¶ 4 “What made liberation theology a little special when it came into existence in the ‘60s was that it used Christian language. Now, that’s not…” 1:57¶ 5 “All that is rooted in Christianity, but in Latin America in the ‘60s and ‘70s it became popular for priests – most of whom…”

12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress 22 Mar 2020 43:33¶ 147 “You look at Rousseau and you look at Locke. Hobbes is a little different. In the French Revolution nobody stood up and said, “There’s…” 44:04¶ 148 “I recommend to you all Francis Nigel Lee’s book, Communist Eschatology. It’s a mile thick with more footnotes than you want to read or…” 40:55¶ 138 “Beyond that you also have in Communist ideology, both in Europe and in Asia, whether we’re talking Russia, China, or less so Vietnam, this…”