The
program of Black Lives Matter is the same program as Satan and Marx
The evils of
the (so-called) “racial justice” movement have their origins in Satan, especially
as Karl Marx interprets and applies Satan’s program. In this article we
examine the connection between the programs of Satan, Marx, and the so-called
“racial justice” group, Black Lives Matter.
We start by
examining key features of Satan’s program.
Satan’s Program
What are the
elements of Satan’s program (war) against God? It:
1. Is anti-God
(and anti-worship of God);
2. Is revolutionary
and is anti-authority;
3. Seeks to divide
people;
4. Promotes
discontent, envy, and discord;
5. Promotes hatred;
6. Is
result-oriented and self-interested; Satan neither acts according to immutable
principles nor encourages his followers to do so;
7. Is full of
lies; and
8. Is anti-Natural
Law.
Below, we will examine
each of these elements of Satan’s program.
Examining the key features of Satan’s program
1. Satan’s program is anti-God (and anti-worship of God).
A
key characteristic of Satan’s battle is that it is explicitly against God and
the worship of God. We consider this aspect of Satan’s plan obvious.
2. Satan’s program is revolutionary and is anti-authority.
All
authority comes from God.
Satan’s first act was to declare revolution against the government of God, his
King. Satan’s battle cry was – and continues to be – “Non serviam!”
Satan
is the original revolutionary and is the father of all revolutionaries.
Satan’s purpose in his first encounter with a human, Eve, was to foment
revolution in the human race. Satan tempted Eve to “go rogue” by disobeying
God and by acting in this eternally-serious matter without seeking the
guidance of her husband.
3. Satan’s program seeks to foment division between persons, classes, and
groups.
Satan
knows that a house divided against itself will not stand. St. Mark’s
Gospel, 3:25. Thus, Satan seeks division in order to weaken and to destroy
human society, as he chose to divide the angels of heaven by opposing God and
His good angels.
4. Satan seeks to achieve his goals by sowing discontent, envy, and discord.
God
promotes contentment and harmony.
He teaches us to bear our crosses joyfully out of love for Him. When soldiers
came to St. John the Baptist seeking to learn what God wanted them to do, St.
John did not sow discontent but rather told them to “be content with your pay”.
Satan
is the opposite: he promotes discontent wherever he can. Satan especially
promotes discontent between persons – the deadly sin of envy. For example,
Satan fomented Cain’s envy of (and murder of) his brother, Abel. Genesis,
4:1-9.
As
another example of Satan promoting discord between persons: he told Eve that
God does not want her to eat of the forbidden tree because God does not want
her to be like God and (Satan told her): “God doth know that in what day soever
you shall eat thereof … you shall be as Gods”. Genesis, 3:5.
5. Satan seeks to achieve his goals by promoting hatred.
As
St. John writes, God is love.
Love is the great source of unity. Satan is full of hatred and he promotes
hatred through all of his works. Satan strives to be the contrary of God, as
hatred is the contrary of love.
6. Satan’s program is result-oriented and appeals to self-interest.
Satan
does not act according to immutable principles of the good and the reasonable,
nor does he encourage others to do so.
Satan’s program is founded upon selfishness. He does whatever helps him gain
an advantage and also encourages his followers to do this.
7. Satan’s program is full of lies. Lies are one of his main tools.
Our
Lord is the Truth and His disciples stand in the truth. Satan is the father of
lies.
Like any liar, Satan says whatever he thinks will be to his advantage, lying
whenever it suits him.
8. Satan’s program is anti-Natural Law.
The
Natural Law comes from God. So, Satan has a particular desire to promote the
breaking of the Natural Law whenever possible. Thus, Satan especially seeks
people to commit sins which are unnatural.
Karl Marx’s
Program
Karl Marx
adopted the key features of Satan’s program. Let us examine how Marx promoted
and applied Satan’s program.
1. Like Satan,
Marx was fundamentally anti-God and anti-worship of God.
Karl Marx was
anti-God. Marx made a pact with Satan, declaring “with Satan I have struck my
deal.”
Not only did
Marx choose Satan instead of God, but Marx also opposed and had contempt for
religion. He declared that:
➢ “religion … is
the opium of the people”.
➢ “Communism abolishes … all
religion.”
➢ Religion is merely a class tool which
the rich use to oppress other people.
Because Marx was
so fundamentally anti-God and pro-Satan, it is fitting that Marx used, and Marxists
continue to use, the clenched-fist salute – which is clenching their fists and
lifting them high. When a person displays a clenched fist at another person,
it is an act indicating defiance. Thus, Marxists raise their clenched
fists heavenward.
2. Like Satan,
Marx was fundamentally a revolutionary and was anti-authority.
Like Satan,
Marx was fundamentally a revolutionary. Like Satan, Marx was filled with
revolutionary defiance against God. In one poetic way in which Marx phrased
his own “non serviam” (in imitation of Satan), he declared that if God
should bring down Marx’s own throne and bring Marx’s “walls and towers down”,
he will nonetheless continue forever his defiant struggle against God, to raise
them up again.
Marx strongly
promoted not only revolution against God but also against all civil governments
and all authority. Here is one way Marx declared support for every
revolution.
Communists everywhere support every
revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of
things. … The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly
declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of
all existing social conditions.
3. Like Satan,
Marx fundamentally sought to divide people and set one group in opposition to
another.
Because Marx was
fundamentally revolutionary, he sought to divide nations, peoples, groups, and
classes because he knew – as Satan also knows – that “if a kingdom be divided
against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.” St. Mark’s Gospel, 3:24.
Thus, Marx, like Satan, sought division in order to weaken, destroy, and foment
revolution.
Here is one way
Marx explained his seeking to set the worker class against the owner class:
The immediate aim of the Communists is
the same as that of all other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat
into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power
by the proletariat.
Pope Pius XI
warned that the “preachers of Communism are proficient in exploiting racial
antagonisms, political divisions, and oppositions.”
In a different place, Pope Pius XI warns that “Communism teaches and seeks …
unrelenting class warfare”.
This Communist
teaching and goal are exactly the opposite of what good men would do. Pope
Pius XI teaches the truth that good men should strive to abolish class conflict
and produce harmony and cooperation between men, a goal directly the opposite
of communism’s goal.
Pope Pius XI
adds in another place, that not only do Communists seek to increase hostility
between the classes of society, but they attack and seek to annihilate anyone
who seeks harmony between classes.
4. Like Satan,
Marx promoted discontent, envy, and discord.
Marx sought to
stir up dissatisfaction with everything, by promoting (as he put it) a
“ruthless criticism of all that exists”.
Marx sought to
mobilize workers to battle against the rich. He declared: “Workers of the
world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”
Marx promoted the workers’ violent destruction of property to express their
anger with the rich for (supposedly) “exploiting” them.
5. Like Satan,
Marx promoted hatred.
Marx wanted to
be well-known for something and, since (as he explained) he could not be the
Creator, he chose to be a destroyer and to “destroy worlds”.
Love is
contrary to hatred. A person seeks union with what he loves and he seeks
separation from, or destruction of, what he hates.
Marx was full of hate and sought to “destroy worlds”.
Further, Marx
hated the rich and sought to overthrow them.
Marx despised various ethnic groups.
Marx not only
hated and sought the destruction of those groups he opposed, but he also urged
others to hate and destroy those groups too.
Like Satan’s program, Marx’s teaching and movement was built on hatred.
Pope Pius XI
warned that Marxism fundamentally involves “violent hate and destruction”.
6. Like Satan,
Marx was result-oriented and unprincipled because Marx neither acted according
to immutable principles nor encouraged his followers to do so.
Marx declared
that he was not bound by objective, eternal morality. Marx did not simply
establish new principles of morality but declared that he abolished morality.
Here is one way Marx explained his teaching:
“There
are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common
to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it
abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them
on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical
experience.”
Instead of
moral principles, Marx taught that anything that advanced the class
struggle was good and anything that impeded the class struggle was bad.
7. Like Satan,
Marx used lies and promoted lies and deception.
Just
as Satan is the Father of Lies and he lies when expedient, Marx also
rejected the moral principle that lying is wrong and he lied to achieve his
goals. Marx declared that “Communism abolishes eternal truths”
Marx
not only approved of lying to achieve his political goals, but he also lied in
his family life. For example, Marx had a deceitful affair with the family’s
housekeeper and lied about it.
To cover up his infidelity, Marx persuaded Engels (co-author of the Communist
Manifesto) and others to lie and to help him cover up the affair. Id.
8. Like Satan,
Marx was anti-Natural Law.
With Marx in
league with Satan and seeking to “destroy worlds” and to defy God (see the above
quotes), Marx also sought to destroy the Natural Law,
which is a key aspect of God’s creation. For example:
❖ Marx sought to
abolish private property
even though private property is part of the Natural Law
and is willed by God.
❖ Marx sought to
abolish marriage and the family
even though those institutions are part of the Natural Law.
❖ Marx sought to
abolish virtue and morality (as shown in the quotes above), even though they
are part of the Natural Law.
❖ Marx sought to
abolish countries, patriotism, and love of one’s own country
even though patriotism is a virtue and is part of the Natural Law.
Summary of this
section:
Marx closely imitated Satan and followed Satan’s evil program.
Before
connecting Marx’s program (in the section above) to the present situation in
the world, let’s call to mind a little background.
We
know that Marxist Russia is currently spreading its errors, since Russia has
not been consecrated to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart, as God commanded. In
1917, Our Lady of Fatima warned that, when she came in the future (viz.,
in 1929) to ask for this consecration, if the pope delayed the consecration,
his delay would cause great harm throughout the world. Here are
Our Lady’s words:
I shall come [viz., in 1929] to
ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, by the Holy Father
and all the bishops of the world. If my request is heeded, Russia will
be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will spread her errors
throughout the world, provoking wars and persecution against the Church.
We
know that, since Our Lady’s request, no pope has consecrated Russia to the
Immaculate Heart. Thus, before even looking at our present situation, we know
that Marxist Russia is indeed spreading its
errors.
When
we look around us, we see powerful proof that Russia is spreading its Marxists
errors everywhere. Below, we take one example: the so-called “racial justice”
movement of Black Lives Matter (“BLM”).
Let
us compare the program of Satan and Marx to the program of BLM and what its
founders or leaders disclose about themselves and/or BLM.
The
Program of Black Lives Matter – as promoted by its leaders
Two
of the founders of the Black Lives Matter (“BLM”) movement claim
they are “trained Marxists”.
BLM activists call each other “comrade”
and use the clenched-fist salute, like the Marxists do.
Patrisse
Cullors, one
of the BLM founders, revealed what appears to be her very strong admiration for
the thoughts and “wisdom” of the ruthless Communist murderer, Chinese dictator
Mao Zedong.
Let’s
examine more ways in which the program of BLM and/or what is promoted by its
founders or leaders track the program of Marx and Satan.
1. Like Satan and Marx, BLM is inherently anti-God.
Catholics
can see this in the words of a BLM founder that she and her comrades practice
paganism and are guided by “spirits” that Catholics would recognize as satanic.
Cullors states that
they have spirits “work through” them “to get the work that we need to get
done”. Cullors added that she “started to feel personally connected and
responsible and accountable to them, both from a deeply political place, but
also from a deeply spiritual place.” Cullors added that they pray to the
spirits and pour libations to them. She stated that at its core, BLM is a
spiritual movement.
Our
Catholic Faith tells us that these “libations” are not poured to God but to
Satan. Pagan gods are devils. Psalm, 95:5.
BLM
founder Cullors also stated how she practices the African pagan religion of Ifá, and sets
up altars to the spirits in her office.
We
should not be surprised by the connection between Satan and the Marxists. Like
Marx himself, his disciples hate the notion of an infinite, all-knowing,
all-powerful and all-good God. These Divine attributes are the opposite
of their materialist, gnostic and egalitarian doctrine.
Since
Marxist doctrine condemns all superiority, it considers an almighty and
loving God to be an oppressor, as is shown in Marx’s own writings.
Instead, Marxists identify with Satan, who is an
inferior, created being, a damned angel, and the (supposed) “victim”
of the Creator’s eternal justice and thus one who
is “oppressed,” “disenfranchised,” “discriminated against”, and
“marginalized to the peripheries”.
2. Like Satan and Marx, BLM is
inherently revolutionary and anti-authority.
One
of the three BLM founders, Alicia Garza, describes her larger goal as
“dismantling the organizing principle of this society”.
This is like Marx’s call for the forcible overthrow of “all existing social
conditions.”
Patrisse
Cullors, another one of the BLM co-founders, is particularly fond of using the
Marxist chant that “we have nothing to lose but our chains”.
(This
is part of the popularized Marxist chant: “Workers of the world unite; you have
nothing to lose but your chains.”)
BLM
uses the customary Marxist language of characterizing blacks as waging a
liberation struggle.
Following
some August 2020 riots in Chicago, BLM organizer, Ariel Atkins, refused to
condemn anything the protesters did, saying:
“There’s no such thing as a bad
protester”.
This
echoes Marx (quoted above) promoting the “proletariat destroying imported wares
that compete with their labour, they smash to pieces machinery, they set
factories ablaze ….”
BLM’s
Atkins
added that
there should be no police to stop the riots. Here are Atkins’s words:
Also, (we’re) demanding that police be
defunded. Police should not be here. They should not exist ….
BLM’s
Atkins added that the
goal was “eventually getting rid of all funding [for police] and using that
money for education, jobs, housing, health care and more”.
Atkins, like others promoting Marxism, seeks to change the way society responds
to bad conduct. Instead of treating rioting and theft as a law enforcement
matter, BLM pushes society to respond by instead offering more “social
services”.
In this way,
BLM shows that it seeks to fulfill Communist Goal #38 (of 45 total goals) as
read into the U.S. Congressional Record in 1963:
38. Transfer some of the powers of
arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as
psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
In
June 2020, BLM Chicago declared that it sought to end all policing and
prisons as well as all authority of fathers in their families. Here is how BLM
phrased its revolutionary goals:
Stay in the streets! The system is
throwing every diversionary and de-mobilizing tactic at us.
We are fighting to end policing and
prisons as a system which nececistates [sic] fighting white supremacist
capitalist heteropatriarchial [sic] imperialism.
This
BLM opposition to “heteropatriarchial imperialism” is opposition to the
authority of a father over his family. This Marxist goal is a rejection both
of the Natural Law and the teaching of the Catholic Church, e.g., where St. Paul
commands: “Wives, be subject to your husbands”. Colossians, 3:18.
Black
Lives Matters
not only encourages protesting but encourages looting too, as shown during the 2020
riots. Black
Lives Matter Chicago
organized a demonstration on Aug 10, 2020 in which protesters held a banner
that read, “Our futures have been looted from us … loot back.”
This BLM demonstration was held to show support for the looters arrested by the
police earlier that day.
Here,
BLM shows that it seeks to fulfill Communist Goal #42 (of 45 total goals) as
read into the U.S. Congressional Record in 1963:
42. Create the impression that violence
and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that
students and special-interest groups should rise up and use “united force” to
solve economic, political or social problems.
3. Like Satan and Marx, BLM seeks to divide people and classes.
BLM seeks to
divide people into antagonistic classes, setting supposed “victims” against
supposed “oppressors”, each hostile to the other. For example:
➢ Pitting women
against men:
BLM declares: “We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from
sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.”
➢ Pitting wives
against husbands:
BLM declares: “We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires
mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they
participate in public justice work.”
➢ Pitting blacks
against whites:
BLM declares: “We are unapologetically Black in our positioning. In affirming
that Black Lives Matter, we need not qualify our position. To love and desire
freedom and justice for ourselves is a prerequisite for wanting the same for
others. We see ourselves as part of the global Black family.”
BLM exemplifies what Pope Pius XI warned about, viz., that the
“preachers of Communism are proficient in exploiting racial antagonisms and
political divisions and oppositions.”
Through
Marxism and BLM, social
cohesion diminishes, and society’s mutual trust and goodwill are destroyed.
Society increasingly moves towards a dangerous and more extreme political
polarization.
4. Like Satan and Marx, BLM promotes discontent, envy, and discord.
BLM
material is full of declarations of “victimhood” and being oppressed by the
“privileged” enemies they are fighting. A few of those quotes are used in this
article.
BLM
leaders, such as founder Alicia Garza, focus on power and getting their way
over their enemies who are steeped in power and “privilege”. For example, here
are Garza’s words in a speech she gave in the state of Maine:
Power is very much about deciding who
gets to make decisions and who doesn’t. Power is about shaping the story of who
we are, and who we can be and who we’re not. Power is about deciding where
resources go and where they don’t go, and why. But most of all, power is about
making sure that there are consequences when people disappoint you.
I believe we all have work to do to
keep dismantling the organizing principle of this society, which creates
inequities for everyone, even white people.
Maine can be a leader for the rest of
this country, on how to fight — obliterate, take it all the way out — white
nationalism. Maine can be a leader in showing the rest of the country, how to
really be a hero, a hero that is courageous enough to dismantle what is
organizing the structures in our society to keep some people with, some people
without, to keep some people together, and tear some families apart.
5. Like Satan and Marx, BLM promotes hatred.
BLM
fills its followers with the idea they are “victims” and should hate those who
are supposedly doing evil to them. The government and the societal “system”
which they fight are their enemy. BLM says this “system” kills them unjustly,
throws them wrongfully into prison, lies about them, turns their friends
against them, wrongfully extradites illegal aliens, bombs them, beats them, and
inflicts pain sadistically on them. Here is one way BLM says this to stir up
hatred and the desire for revenge:
What has the system done historically
in response to Black liberation movements: assassinations, imprisonment, rumor
spreading, creating enemies out of friends, exiling folks, bombings, beatings,
torture.
We see this happening now.
This is the system fighting back.
6. Like Satan and Marx, BLM is result-oriented and self-interested. BLM
neither acts according to immutable principles nor encourages its followers to
do so.
BLM
is not devoted to the truth and to reality. For example, BLM says that the
truth of a person’s gender does not matter but only what gender the person
“feels” like he is. Here is one way BLM states this:
All Black lives matter, regardless of
actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression,
economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs,
immigration status, or location.
Alicia
Garza, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, stated that BLM’s focus
should be on power and doing whatever is necessary to win, with no moral
restraints. Here are her words: “the struggle right now is not a moral one, it
is a struggle over power”.
BLM
leader Ariel Atkins declared that principles (i.e., morals) should not
restrain people from doing whatever is expedient. Here are her words:
I think (the looting) is fine. People
protest however they need to. People do whatever they need. …
There’s no such thing as a bad
protester.
BLM’s
Atkins called the looting “reparations”.
According to one news report, this looting was planned ahead of time and
involved U-hauls rented to carry away the stolen goods.
Marxists
hate the Church’s moral law, which is based on the Natural Law,
and both are objective societal principles which are true for all
times, places, and peoples. By contrast, Marxists teach that morality is
relative, as Marx declared that Communists “abolish” all morals.
7. Like Satan and Marx, BLM impliedly rejects
any obligation to tell the truth.
Alicia
Garza, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, stated that BLM’s focus
should be on gaining power and doing whatever is necessary to win, with no
moral restraints. Here are her words: “the struggle right now is not a moral
one, it is a struggle over power”.
This impliedly shows that the BLM Marxists agree with Karl Marx that seeking
power and revolution, they reject any moral obligation to tell the truth.
8. Like Satan and Marx, BLM opposes the Natural Law.
Like
Satan and Marx, BLM fights the Natural Law. For example:
➢
BLM
is anti-private property. For example, BLM leader Ariel Atkins
declared: “I think (the looting) is fine. People protest however they need to.”
➢
BLM
is pro-abortion.
Here is one way BLM stated its position: “We deserve and thus we demand
reproductive justice that gives us autonomy over our bodies”.
This is typical leftist jargon for demanding abortion.
➢
BLM
promotes unnatural impurity and views natural purity as the enemy. Here is one way
BLM stated its position:
We foster a queer‐affirming
network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from
the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in
the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).
➢
BLM
promotes the “transgender” delusion. Here is one way BLM stated its
position:
We make space for transgender brothers
and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work
required to dismantle cisgender [meaning a person acknowledges his real gender]
privilege and uplift Black trans folk [meaning a person claiming to be the
other gender], especially Black trans women who continue to be
disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
Here,
BLM shows that it seeks to fulfill Communist Goals #25 & #-26 (of 45 total
goals) as read into the U.S. Congressional Record in 1963:
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting
pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality,
degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural, and healthy.
➢
BLM
is anti-family. Here
is one way BLM stated its position:
We disrupt the Western-prescribed
nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended
families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our
children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
Here,
BLM shows that it seeks to fulfill Communist Goals #40 & #41 (of 45 total
goals) as read into the U.S. Congressional Record in 1963:
40. Discredit the family as an
institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise
children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices,
mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
Marxists
hate the Natural Law and Catholic concept of the family
as society’s basic unit, founded on the sacrament of marriage
(as the Church teaches) and transmitting morality, religion, tradition and
property from one generation to the next. Marxists see the family as an
oppressive institution that must be destroyed.
Marxists
hate the institution of marriage defined as the union of one man and
one woman to the exclusion of all others, open to children,
and responsible for their education. Marxists hate marriage because it
reinforces morality. Marxists favor “free love” and
impurity.
Conclusion
Like
all Marxist groups, the BLM movement goes against all reason, morality,
decency, and most importantly, the Catholic Faith.
We
must defend the truth. Now, more than ever, it is obvious that God is testing
our fidelity to truth and our precious Faith. We have to remind ourselves that
God is in charge and is allowing these current events to happen for His
greater honor and glory. He wants these events to be meritorious for us and
the means for our sanctification.
Here is the longer
quote of what St. John the Baptist taught the soldiers:
And
the soldiers also asked him [viz., St. John the Baptist], saying: And
what shall we do? And he said to them: Do violence to no man; neither
calumniate any man; and be content with your pay.
St.
Luke’s Gospel,
3:14 (emphasis added; bracketed words added to show the context).
Here is the longer
quote from Marx’s poem, The Fiddler:
How so! I plunge,
plunge without fail
My blood-black sabre into your soul.
That art God neither wants nor wists,
It leaps to the brain from Hell’s black mists.
Till heart’s
bewitched, till senses reel:
With Satan I have struck my deal.
He chalks the signs, beats time for me,
I play the death march fast and free.
Religious suffering is, at one and the
same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against
real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature,
the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is
the opium of the people.
“There
are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common
to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal
truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of
constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all
past historical experience.”
Communist Manifesto, Chapter II
(emphasis added).
Here is the longer
quote from Marx:
So a god has
snatched from me my all
In the curse and rack of destiny.
All his worlds are gone beyond recall!
Nothing but revenge is left to me! […]
I shall build
my throne high overhead,
Cold, tremendous shall its summit be.
For its bulwark—superstitious dread,
For its Marshall—blackest agony. […]
And the Almighty’s
lightning shall rebound
From that massive iron giant.
If he bring my walls and towers down,
Eternity shall raise them up, defiant.
The Communist
Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, published in 1848
(emphasis added).
Communist Manifesto,
Chapter II.
Divini Redemptoris
– On Atheistic Communism, by Pope Pius XI, 1937, paragraph 15. Note, as
quoted here, we remove the word “also” before the word “proficient”, because
the other exploitations to which the pope refers are not part of the quote we
give here.
Here is the longer
quote from the pope:
One
section of Socialism has undergone almost the same change that the capitalistic
economic system, as We have explained above, has undergone. It has sunk into
Communism. Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class
warfare and absolute extermination of private ownership.
Quadragesimo Anno, by Pope Pius XI, 1931,
paragraph 112.
Here is the pope’s
longer teaching:
First
and foremost, the State and every good citizen ought to look to and strive
toward this end: that the conflict between the hostile classes be abolished and
harmonious cooperation of the Industries and Professions be encouraged and
promoted.
Quadragesimo Anno, by Pope Pius XI, 1931, paragraph 81.
Here is the pope’s
longer teaching:
Insisting
on the dialectical aspect of their materialism, the Communists claim that the
conflict which carries the world towards its final synthesis can be accelerated
by man. Hence, they endeavor to sharpen the antagonisms which arise between
the various classes of society. Thus, the class struggle with its consequent
violent hate and destruction takes on the aspects of a crusade for the progress
of humanity. On the other hand, all other forces whatever, as long as they
resist such systematic violence, must be annihilated as hostile to the human
race.
Divini Redemptoris – On Atheistic Communism,
by Pope Pius XI, 1937, paragraph 9.
Quote from Karl Marx
which is found here: https://www.azquotes.com/author/9564-Karl_Marx?p=2
The end of the Communist Manifesto contains these words: “Working
Men of All Countries, Unite!” In an editor’s footnote, Marxist.org explains
that the more popularized version of the motto is the longer one quoted in the
body of this article.
The
proletariat goes through various stages of development. With its birth begins
its struggle with the bourgeoisie. At first the contest is carried on by
individual labourers, then by the workpeople of a factory, then by the
operative of one trade, in one locality, against the individual bourgeois who
directly exploits them. They direct their attacks not against the bourgeois
conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves;
they destroy imported wares that compete with their labour, they smash to pieces
machinery, they set factories ablaze, they seek to restore by force the
vanished status of the workman of the Middle Ages.
Communist Manifesto, Chapter I.
I am caught in
endless strife,
Endless ferment,
endless dream;
I cannot conform to life,
Will not travel with the stream.
Heaven I would
comprehend,
I would draw the world to me;
Loving, hating, I intend
That my star shine brilliantly. […]
Worlds I would
destroy forever,
Since I can
create no world,
Since my call they
notice never,
Coursing dumb in magic whirl. […]
So the spirits go
their way
Till they are consumed outright,
Till their lords and masters they
Totally annihilate.
Poem by Marx, from
pp. 525–26 of Volume one of Marx’s collected works, as quoted here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/a-little-known-side-of-karl-marx-his-poetry-and-his-diabolism
Communist Manifesto, Chapter II.
Communist Manifesto, Chapter II.
Karl Marx called himself “the greatest
hater of the so-called positive.” https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/56204 (emphasis added).
Lenin, who was a disciple of
Marx, declared: “We must teach our children to hate. Hatred is the
basis of communism.”. Lenin admitted that hatred was “the basis of every
socialist and Communist movement.” Lenin’s speech to the Soviet Commissars of
Education and his tract, Left-Wing Communism, as quoted in https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/56204
Here is the pope’s
longer teaching:
Insisting
on the dialectical aspect of their materialism, the Communists claim that the
conflict which carries the world towards its final synthesis can be accelerated
by man. Hence, they endeavor to sharpen the antagonisms which arise between
the various classes of society. Thus, the class struggle with its consequent
violent hate and destruction takes on the aspects of a crusade for the progress
of humanity. On the other hand, all other forces whatever, as long as they
resist such systematic violence, must be annihilated as hostile to the human
race.
Divini Redemptoris – On Atheistic Communism,
by Pope Pius XI, 1937, paragraph 9.
But
is there such a thing as communist ethics? Is there such a thing as communist
morality? Of course, there is. It is often suggested that we have no ethics of
our own; very often the bourgeoisie accuse us Communists of rejecting all
morality. This is a method of confusing the issue, of throwing dust in the
eyes of the workers and peasants.
In
what sense do we reject ethics, reject morality?
In
the sense given to it by the bourgeoisie, who based ethics on God’s
commandments. On this point we, of course, say that we do not believe in God,
and that we know perfectly well that the clergy, the landowners and the
bourgeoisie invoked the name of God so as to further their own interests as
exploiters. Or, instead of basing ethics on the commandments of morality, on
the commandments of God, they based it on idealist or semi-idealist phrases,
which always amounted to something very similar to God’s commandments.
We
reject any morality based on extra-human and extra-class concepts. We say that
this is deception, dupery, stultification of the workers and peasants in the
interests of the landowners and capitalists.
We
say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the
proletariat’s class struggle. Our morality stems from the interests of the
class struggle of the proletariat.
Vladimir Lenin’s Speech
Delivered October 2, 1920, at the Third All-Russia Congress of The Russian
Young Communist League, available at this link: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/oct/02.htm
Communist Manifesto,
Chapter II (emphasis added).
Marx declared: “[T]he theory of the
Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
Communist Manifesto, Chapter II.
Encyclical, Quod Apostolici
muneris, Pope Leo XIII, Dec. 28, 1878, quoted at Denz. §1851.
Summa, IIa IIae, Q.32, a.5, ad 2.
The
Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and
nationality. The working men have no country.
Communist Manifesto, Chapter II.
This is a portion of Our
Lady’s message during the Third Apparition of Fatima, July 13, 1917 (emphasis
added; bracketed words added to clarify the timeline), quoted from The Whole
Truth About Fatima, Frére Michel de la Sainte Trinité, translator John
Collorafi, vol. II, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, NY, © 1989 for
English translation, pp.281-282.
For example, in its credo,
“What we believe”, BLM declares:
Every
day, we recommit to healing ourselves and each other, and to co-creating
alongside comrades, allies, and family a culture where each person feels
seen, heard, and supported.
Here
is a fuller extract from this interview:
Q. In the same vein of formative experiences, religion has played a
large role in your life. I was wondering if you could tell us about how you
started to bring Ifá into your life and how you made the decision to bring its
rituals to your rallies?
A. I actually started to study Ifá, maybe…in my early twenties?
And I felt really connected to the tradition. One, because it comes from
Nigeria—from the Yoruba people in particular—and I felt incredibly connected to
West Africa. I think the other part was that it was really practical. I come
from a Jehovah’s Witness background, which is an incredibly conservative
religion, and an incredibly conservative experience. I needed a tradition that
was more generous to people and to humanity. I needed a tradition that was
rooted in African traditions, and so I just naturally started. It’s something
to know about me: I try to bring my whole self into every experience I have.
So
I started to make little ancestor altars in my office when I worked at the
Strategy Center, to create a little space of ancestors with little pictures. I
thought it was really important to note that we stand on the shoulders of
giants in our movement, other civil rights leaders who either were assassinated
or died. I think when we started to do chants across the country—that we must
love each other, support each other, we have nothing to lose but our chains—I
would naturally end it with “Ase,” which is like Amen, but in Yoruba. I’m not
the one that coined “Ase”; it’s from the old language. But it became really
popularized in our movement to be present and to be spiritual, and showing that
unapologetically.
So
a god has snatched from me my all
In the curse and rack of destiny.
All his worlds are gone beyond recall!
Nothing but revenge is left to me! […]
I shall build my throne high overhead,
Cold, tremendous shall its summit be.
For its bulwark—superstitious dread,
For its Marshall—blackest agony. […]
And
the Almighty’s lightning shall rebound
From that massive iron giant.
If he bring my walls and towers down,
Eternity shall raise them up, defiant.
The Communist
Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, published in 1848
(emphasis added).
Quote from Karl Marx
which is found here: https://www.azquotes.com/author/9564-Karl_Marx?p=2
The end of the Communist Manifesto contains these words:
“Working Men of All Countries, Unite!” In an editor’s footnote, Marxist.org
explains that the more popularized version of the motto is the longer one
quoted in the body of this letter.
Here is how the BLM credo
stated this in 2020:
The
Black Lives Matter Global Network is as powerful as it is because of our
membership, our partners, our supporters, our staff, and you. Our continued commitment
to liberation for all Black people means we are continuing the work of our
ancestors and fighting for our collective freedom because it is our duty.
Quoted from the Congressional Record – Appendix, pp. A34-A35, Current
Communist Goals, Extension of Remarks of Hon. A. S. Herlong, Jr. of Florida
in the House of Representatives, Thursday, January 10, 1963.
This
museum’s characterization implies that good habits, virtue and success are
foreign to blacks. Notice how the so-called “white supremacists” (who are
abhorred by BLM) believe like BLM does, that blacks as a race are unable to rise
above bad habits in order to excel.
Catholic
Candle
completely disagrees with this position. We hold that blacks, like everyone
else, can live according to good habits, reason, and virtue.
Divini Redemptoris – On Atheistic Communism, by Pope Pius
XI, 1937, paragraph 15. Note, as quoted here, we remove the word “also” before
the word “proficient”, because the other exploitations to which the pope refers
are not part of the quote we give here.
Communist Manifesto,
Chapter II (emphasis added).
Quoted from the
Congressional Record – Appendix, pp. A34-A35, Current Communist Goals,
Extension of Remarks of Hon. A. S. Herlong, Jr. of Florida in the House of
Representatives, Thursday, January 10, 1963.
Quoted from the Congressional Record – Appendix, pp. A34-A35, Current
Communist Goals, Extension of Remarks of Hon. A. S. Herlong, Jr. of Florida
in the House of Representatives, Thursday, January 10, 1963.