We’ve looked at the past – at the origins and root cause of the Great Struggle of humankind (see True Struggle & Alienation). We’ve considered two major conflicting solutions being offered to us in the present as a means of emancipating humankind from the effects of alienation and struggle (see True Revolution). What about the future? In our society there is so much passion and energy being poured into the idea of progress. What exactly are we progressing toward? What…
(See also: True Struggle & Alienation) Alienation and struggle are real. We have been separated from God and our fellow man because of sin. Socialism maintains that the problem is at its core a material problem; and that the solution is revolution. We already see this revolution erupting around us in the shaming of the rich and the “capitalist” class, the dividing up of people into groups, the pitting of one group against another, the call for redistribution of wealth, the desire…
I am no economist, nor am I an expert of any sort in political science. I am a stay-at-home mom in search of answers – in search of truth. The political events of this past year honestly left me spinning. My head pulls me in one direction, my heart pulls me in another. The world pulls me somewhere else altogether. To find a clear path forward, I knew I had to start by digging down to the roots of the…
See also Revolution, Part 1 and Revolution, Part 2 These past several months, as I have watched the news, read opinion articles and scrolled through my social media feeds, I haven’t been able to stop scenes from China: A Century of Revolution from reeling through my mind. The documentary illustrates five strategies the Communist Party employed during the Cultural Revolution to corral the Chinese people, silence opposition and move the country “forward” along a progressive Marxist trajectory. They were: 1.)…
See also Revolution, Part 1 and Revolution, Part 3 China didn’t become a communist country overnight. In the early 1900’s, the atmosphere in China had reached a boiling point. Cruel warlords ruled different regions of the country and were battling one other. People were suffering. There was widespread unrest and the nation desperately needed to come together. Serious changes had to be made. But what sort of changes? A long and tedious tug of war ensued; a struggle between the Nationalist Party…
My husband and I first moved to China together in 2007. We journeyed there to teach Freshman and Sophomore English at a university in Southeastern China. The American English teachers who had preceded us at the university knew we were coming and had left a stash of random items for us in the guest room closet of our on-campus apartment. They left books, teaching materials, Christmas decorations, pots and pans, board games, baking spices, pudding mixes, a pair of rain…