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excerpted from:TCS Daily - Why Isn’t Socialism Dead?

In addition to sending in the troops, Morales is also sending forth a good bit of inflammatory rhetoric. He refers to the foreign companies operating Bolivia’s natural resources as having “looted” them, and his decision to send in troops on the traditional socialist holiday, May the First, was clearly not a coincidence. In a similar vein, Morales’ mentor, Hugo Chavez, has also been preaching that to be rich is to be wicked, while to be poor is to be virtuous — and though he may be quoting scripture to support his arguments, there can be no serious question that Chavez-style populism is simply socialism with a South American accent.

And this leads to the question I want to address, namely, Why isn’t socialism dead?

The Peruvian economist, Hernando de Soto, has argued in his book, The Mystery of Capital, that the failure of the various socialist experiments of the twentieth century has left mankind with only one rational choice about which economic system to go with, namely, capitalism. Socialism, he maintained, has been so discredited that any further attempt to revive it would be sheer irrationality. But if this is the case, which I personally think it is, then why are we witnessing what certainly appears to be a revival of socialist rhetoric and even socialist pseudo-solutions, such as the nationalization of foreign companies?

It should be stressed that de Soto is not arguing that, after the many socialist failures of the twentieth century, capitalism has became historically inevitable and that its expansion would occur according to some imaginary iron clad laws without any need for active intervention. On the contrary, de Soto is fully aware of the enormous obstacles to the expansion of capitalism, especially in regions like South America, and his book is full of dismal statistics that demonstrate the uphill battle against bureaucratic red-tape that is involved in getting a business license or even buying a house in many third world countries. But, here again, the question arises, If capitalism is mankind’s only rational alternative, why do so many of the governments of third world nations make it so extraordinarily difficult for ordinary people to take the first small steps on the path of free enterprise?

Short answer: Socialism and its cousins of Communism and Fascism with all their body counts will not die until the speech of those engulfed in non-creating speech is changed to Creating Speech/Jesus Christ or until non-creating speech is thrown into the lake of fire along with all those who speak it. If you haven’t noticed what non-creating speech is, then you have not been born again as a real, literal new creation in Jesus Christ and need to get aquainted with your own speech. (later, ask yourself why you hadn’t noticed before what non-creating speech is and that it exists…you really knew, you just didn’t notice that you knew and didn’t notice that your whole perception of reality, knowledge, wisdom and freedom of will and ..everything was based on the supposed neutrality and non-interference of language..)

As many are witness before you, the various systems of government have been proven to each generation to be unsuccessful and yet men always try them anyway. Men can do no other than try what has always failed because sin and evil is not an information or an education problem and yet men are perfectly deceived that it is — because they are deceived they have free will –because they are deceived that they are in the presence of a speech that cannot interfere with the will of those who speak it or hear or read it as writing and that that supposed non-interfereing-with-the-will-speech is the only speech in total reality. Men are deceived they have free will and thus they are deceived that ‘on purpose’ or ‘by accident’ their own speech can deliver them from evil; that they can just keep speaking and at some point a ’solution’ as ‘information’ will ‘appear’ that will solve ‘the crisis’.

Because men are deceived there is no such thing as Creating Speech/Jesus Christ/Word of God and thus non-metaphorical new birth in Him, they are further deceived that their will is free and needs only a bit of guidance in the right direction (aka ‘holy directions’) –the ‘education’ and the ‘information that supposedly solves the problem of evil and sin– to ‘make things work out.’ (I.E. to be happy.) Not only are they deceived the purpose of their own existence is to be happy for themselves and other creatures like themselves (by definition those with the same speech and heart in common with themselves) but they must do that on their own in an environment in which nothing new is ever being created such that what that happiness should be by definition is simply ‘their fair share’ of the supposed only steak/limited resources in total reality. Their non-creating speech is their mind and gives them a lens and agenda of non-creation and death on total reality: war/fight-over-limited-resources/’how’-to-divvy-up-those-supposed-non-renewable-resources.

To ask “Why isn’t Socialism Dead Yet?” is simply to ask “Why isn’t there ever enough?” –why does something called dissatisfaction exists? What is it? Where did it come from? It is also to ask “Why can’t we just talk our way toward peace?”

God has long answered all these things in Jesus Christ (not the pop Jesus of those deceived they can simply ‘choose Jesus’ in order to ‘be happy’.)

Psalm 33:8-11 Let all the earth fear Jehovah; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For *he* spoke, and it was done ; *he* commanded, and it stood fast. Jehovah frustrateth the counsel of the nations; he maketh the thoughts of the peoples of none effect. The counsel of Jehovah standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

2 Corinthiains 5:16,17 So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer. So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

To say that you have no need of being born again and receive from God through the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ a new heart such that you understand why mere ‘happiness’ in the old heart was and is wickedness is to be entrapped in anti-Christ; non-creating speech of sin. It is to make God out to be an emotional imbecile for doing what He does while you are a supposed emotional genius heretofore unseen in the world who just might be the one to make, say, something like Socialism ‘work’ this time, no matter how much evidence to the contrary (as in dead bodies) you are shown. After all, if you are deceived you have free will, maybe your will is just a bit more ‘free’ than those who ‘tried’ it before you –or at least maybe it would be if only those pesky other people, ‘the rejectionists’ were first liquidated and gotten out of your way. Maybe you can start with the unborn or the young, work your way to the aged and comatose –you know, those who don’t seem to evidence much ‘free’ will anyway and yet eat resources anyway and cost money, attention and emotion to maintain with little or no payback for the trouble. Perhaps you, like so many before you will walk over the bones of millions to reach that eutopia of ‘Enough for everybody that’s Left and also Right”.

But not if you are blessed:

Pslam73:1-20 Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped; For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked. For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished. They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men: Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment; Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart: They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily: They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them. And they say, How can *God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High? Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches. Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency: For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children. When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes; Until I went into the sanctuaries of *God; then understood I their end. Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins. How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors. As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.

God will prevent you from doing so. And that will be the only reason you will not be an ax murderer or a Stalin, Pol Pot or Saddam Hussien.

Job 23:12-17 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart. But He is in one mind , and who can turn Him? And what His soul desireth, that will He do. For He will perform what is appointed for me; and many such things are with Him. Therefore am I troubled at His presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him. For *God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me; Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath He hidden the gloom from me.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen