Understanding
the Socialist
Worldview
By Mark Koscak
IN
1921, Antonio Gramsci, a committed Marxist,
organized the Italian Communist Party. Like all
Marxists, his worldview was anti-God, anti-family, and
anti-capitalist. Gramsci learned that western society
with its Judeo-Christian foundation, and institutions
built on this foundation, provided the stability that
prevented the implementation of ideas like Marxism.
Gramsci realized that to implement Marxism in the
West, his strategy would have to undermine the Chris-
tian worldview and its foundations. With this goal in
mind, Gramsci developed a plan for a gradual, silent
revolution based on deception. Manipulation and
infiltration were key aspects of this strategy and also
included a secret effort to have communist warriors
invade positions of influence in universities, seminar-
ies, government, media, and ultimately, each of the
pillars of society. Gramsci realized this effort would
take patience. He said it would take a “long march
through the culture” to slowly discredit and undermine
western society. He believed this slow revolution would
eventually lead western society to fall apart, opening
the way for totalitarian communism to rescue society
from the mess.
Gramsci was just one of many Marxists who believed
in the strategy of deception. Russian leader Niki-
ta Khrushchev visited the U.S. in 1959 and in a rare
moment of candor shared the truth about his views
when he said, “You Americans are so gullible! No, you
won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feed-
ing you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake
up and find you already have communism. We won’t
have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until
you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” In reality,
Khrushchev was following in the steps of Gramsci and
many other Marxists who believed in the strategy of
deception, including Vladimir Lenin, who was forth-
right about the end game when he shared, “The goal of
socialism is communism.”
THE ROOT AND FRUIT OF MARXISM
Karl Marx said, “To be radical is to grasp things at
the root.” As we grasp the root and the fruit of Marx-
ism, it will reveal some radical differences from a
biblical worldview.
Marx was an avowed atheist who was open-
ly hostile to religion. He said, “I hate all gods!” He
hated Christianity and everything related to it, and
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