We think of this evil as Marxism. In reality, Marxism is nothing more or less than the current instantiation of a much more ancient evil: possession by the envious and hateful spirit that drove Cain to murder his brother Abel.
The great book of Genesis thus portrays mankind as riven by an eternal fratricidal conflict.
Those who reject genuine sacrifice become embittered by their subsequent failure ("rejection by God").
Instead of repenting and changing, they turn to revenge.
And who do they target? Those who strive to do well and offer what is best.
I can't believe how much wisdom the author of Genesis 4 compressed into that story's few sentences. You might even come to believe that God Himself had a hand in it.
Truly: it's uncanny. The first two human beings born into history are, respectively, a good, honest productive man and his brother, who allows himself to be consumed by resentment and the desire to destroy.
Communism, in a nutshell.
MARXISM: The last stop on the polar express.
To build his workers' paradise, Lenin murdered some 6 million people. Lenin's regime nationalized church property in 1918. Stalin, then shipped 7 million people in rail cars to Siberian work camps, culled 148 million heads of livestock and destroyed countless tons of grain, resulting in a manmade famine that killed 10 million people.
Siberia, also known as the "Pole of Cold", is the coldest region in the northern hemisphere, reaching temperatures even colder than the North Pole.
Before Lenin and Stalin, there were 54,000 Orthodox churches in Russia; by 1940, there were 500. According to Baylor University's Philip Jenkins, "Christians suffered horrific persecutions" - forced labor, torture, concentration camps - under Soviet-backed regimes. In Hungary, "Christian clergy and laity were murdered in the thousands." In Poland, religious holidays were abolished and children from churchgoing families were denied acceptance into college.
Stalin also ordered more than a million Jews deported to Siberia in 1953. They were spared only by his death.
SOURCE: Lessons From the Fall - The American Legion Magazine 02/2022
https://archive.legion .org/node/16481
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