editorial 1

RED ALERT 2

Packed with its own philosophy of history, labelled on the side with a utopian brand, and tightly sealed with dialectical materialism, Marxist communism is still by far the best ideological package great visionaries created in a zealous response to an era where a fast and great revolution is reshaping the very face of the earth.

Who doesn’t want this package? It offers reasons and solutions to almost all questions humanity consequently raised while experiencing a massive socio-political revolution. The ideology offers a utopian vision of an egalitarian future, an understanding of the dynamics of history, and a promise of uplifting the oppressed. With a very appealing aroma of a grand promise, who in the right mind doesn’t sit and think about it? In history, these ideological features which explicitly addressed the need of the time attracted the disillusioned and the oppressed in cities and towns creating a growing movement that soon worked its way up to the echelons of power. How awesome this ideal is, mobilizing the masses for revolution, collectively owning the means of value, and a future that is substantially a paradise where everybody is “equal”. The idea seems close to perfect BUT in my personal opinion the ideology’s vision as extolled by its doctrine is accomplished only through the use of chaos, arms, and tyranny bounded by materialistic philosophy which are incompatible to the moral design set by our God.

Communism emphasizes the need of revolution to overthrow the ruling class. Experience of our own history may suggest that a peaceful revolution is possible but in the case of this ideology, Class struggle is an utmost necessity for the advancement of the oppressed class. Constant revolution utterly means constant chaos. A society which constantly descends into a state of chaos is a failed society. The sanctity of life is ignored thus the society can never reach its fullness rather it crumbles under the weight of its own violence.

Communism reduces the human person merely as an economic unit not a person with inalienable dignity. The value of a man can only be derived from his economic output. Judgement is rendered not in the basis of universal rights rather the productivity the person could offer to the state. A state which engages its people with complete disregard of dignity violates the very purpose of its existence.

Applied communism as what is written in history has deprived the human person of freewill and participation. Confined by fear, intimidation, and a tyrannical leadership, the people in a communist state can’t grow and pursue their right of self-determination. The people are compelled to commit themselves only to the will of the state and in this case the leader. The leader as the personification of the state is absolute. He is the state thus the individual person is emptied to an insignificant individual whose aim is only to follow the leader’s will.

Hence, Communism as a radical ideology is twisted in a way that it neither coincide the social teachings of the Church nor upholds the fullest possible development of the human person in its society.