Communism: The Dream of a Jew Who Didn’t Know Messiah

Written by oceanyoga

October 22, 2024

The second thing I want to say about communism is the idea that it’s a dream of a Jew who didn’t know Messiah, and so that’s a bit trickier to put forth because that is the idea that we were relying on the government as an authority to take care of us because we didn’t know that God had such love and mercy for us. So the person who actually created communism was Karl Marx, and it was put forth by Jews, and we have to look at the history and realize that there were large groups of Jewish people who were told that Jesus Christ was not the Messiah and that they had to look elsewhere. And that in this search for Messiah, they have seen the world as fundamentally unfixable and that our relationship with God is hostile, and so the Jews who did not know Messiah had a hostility towards life and a fear towards life that was healed when Jesus Christ came. He came to bring that teaching to the Jews and bring them the blessing of knowing God’s infinite mercy.

So the Jews who did not know the infinite mercy of God were the Jews who did not know Messiah. And because they did not have that infinite mercy as part of their teachings, they created a benevolent brainchild called communism. Communism was a brainchild of somebody who was unhappy and frightened. So the answer is not to form a new government that takes care of us. 

 

The answer is to be whole in Christ, and that’s the new message. So we need to go back and fix Karl Marx. We need to update him, see him as a historical figure who was tragically flawed, and go on in a new direction that includes Messiah and our ability to have self-reliance.

In viewing communism as the “dream of a Jew who didn’t know Messiah,” we look deeply into the root of this ideology. Communism, conceived by Karl Marx, offered a vision where government provided for people in a society that sought to erase economic and social differences. However, I see it as born from a place of fear and uncertainty, rather than from divine assurance and peace.

Consider Marx’s life and his origins: he was Jewish but lived at a time when Jesus was often dismissed as the Messiah within his community. Without the understanding of Christ’s mercy, his vision of a better society took shape in communism, relying on an external authority—a government—to solve life’s inequities. The ideology thus emerged from a worldview lacking the profound, transformative mercy and love that the Messiah was meant to bring. There’s a crucial message here: when we are disconnected from that mercy, we may attempt to build utopias that ultimately rest on flawed foundations.

Marx’s dream of communism can be seen as a response to the world’s pain but from a place of seeking control and order, rather than seeking faith and divine grace. When the Jews who did not know the Messiah sought answers, they saw the world as a place in need of rigid systems and corrections rather than divine restoration. They viewed life as harsh, even hostile, feeling compelled to place their hopes in secular systems and ideologies rather than in the wholeness offered by the Messiah’s message. This sense of “hostility toward life,” this fear, found expression in communism—a system aimed at protecting and providing but fundamentally lacking the spiritual wholeness offered by a relationship with Christ.

So what is the answer? Not a government that stands as Big Brother, offering provisions and protections that ultimately leave us dependent and spiritually unfulfilled. The answer, instead, is to seek wholeness in Christ, the Messiah who teaches us that God’s mercy is vast, available, and transformative. Rather than looking back to communism’s origins as a solution, we are called to go forward—embracing a vision that allows for both spiritual self-reliance and divine community. By understanding Marx as a figure limited by the lack of spiritual insight into Messiah’s message, we can recognize communism for what it is: a historically and spiritually flawed attempt at creating paradise without the foundations of divine love and mercy.

In the end, healing our world and nurturing communities must start within, with a heart tuned to God’s infinite mercy. This means not merely “fixing” Karl Marx’s vision but moving beyond it, forging a path that recognizes the gift of the Messiah and the call to self-reliance anchored in divine trust and community. This is the direction forward—a society not sustained by centralized authority but one that finds strength in faith, in love, and in the wholeness that Christ has brought to the world.

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