Master science sits atop all other sciences; one could say, it rests atop the intellectual pyramid.

A comprehensive vision of politics, political theory, is one of those sciences. Superior political theory is meant to remedy the way most of us see government and politics. A political theory provides a basis for judging the wisdom of our political deeds and arrangements by looking at them in the full context of the human needs and limitations that created politics in the first place. [i] In short, you must diagnose the problem back to the source.

But in order to do that, you must ensure the problem is political and not personal. Because too many blame their growing pains (or jealousy) on conservatism and capitalism.

Within this short, political essay my intent is to diagnose the weakness on Marxism. If you wish to read a comprehensive account, The Naked leftist, provides a lengthy insight from a conservative’s view to leftism.

Marx claimed capitalism was a classed society, while communism would be classless, i.e., there would be no upper class, no middle class, no lower class, no working class, and no bourgeois. Under Marxist rule, we would all live the same; i.e., you will own nothing, and be happy. Today, that theory continues with many (like Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum) believing a classless society can solve the world’s problems. Yet, so many Marxist theorists dispute over the best means to this end.

I offer this simple argument—solving the world’s problems without living God’s word is an impossibility.

The “sins” which Marx perceived for the alienation of labor and the contradictions of the bourgeois society—he saw disorder in the capitalist society, particularly, the poverty and misery of the working class. The main contradictions he professed was between the riches that capitalism could produce and the human suffering and impoverishment he perceived.

I give no argument that Marxism relies heavily on economic doctrine. Those who promote Marxism have devoted volumes to the analysis of the dynamics of the capitalist economy. That being said, just because you can produce an abundance of garbage, doesn’t mean you are an expert in sanitation engineering.

Marx stated the sadistic or the self-destructive could be pleased by the alienation or exploitation that derived from the capitalist system. Marx argued capitalism was plagued by war; while a communist society would be peaceful. Yet, Marx’s theory, brought about millions suffering in his “classless” society. In fact, the historical record stands somewhat ironic to the number of deaths throughout communist regimes and this vision of a “peaceful society”. Because of Classicide, Genocide, Democide, Politicide, the number of deaths exceed 140 million people.

Marx wrote, “that labor produces for the rich wonderful things—but for the worker it produces privation. It produces palaces—but for the worker, hovels. It produces beauty—but for the worker, deformity. It produces labor by machines—but some of the worker it throws back to a barbarous type of labor, and the other workers it turns into machines. It produces intelligence—but for the worker idiocy, cretinism.” [ii]

Marx claimed man was a commodity and part of a group but not an individual. I argue, if we realize a classless society, and we are all treated the same, how can we or one, be deemed as an individual.

I also contend, your current manner of “paid employment” does not define who you are. No one forced you into indentured servitude to your employer; but government does force you into slavery. It forces you to pay your “fair” portion of government’s progressive taxation.

What defines you lays inside, and does not come from the role of your job. Friendliness, courtesy, love, and even hate, are these commodities to be traded or exploited by your employer?

Socialism, Marxism, turns adolescence into an ideology. Purporting fairness, and equality, but in essence It indoctrinates radicals who wish to change the system. They become part of the problem. Parents (if not society) fails, when they neglect to tell their children to grow up.

Suffering does not result from capitalism, but rather a failure of those who did not grow up, along with a hatred of God. There will always be evil, and injustice. Man’s failure to ‘man up’ and follow God’s way, but rather caved to personal weakness—the hunger for power, coveting, and the ease to commit further sins. Man’s natural aggression causes many of us to transmute, to be God-like. (The sociology of power is a crucial part of the study of politics. Contemporary political science is concerned with power and influence.)

Human unhappiness does not stem from a failure of capitalism. Blaming capitalism abdicates responsibility for one’s own weakness. There never will be equality, nor should there be. We are all individuals and each of us developed by our own circumstances. As individuals, we each possess our own desires and fears. As an individual, it is up to you to how you navigate your potential.

Without an understanding and love of God, there is no inner peace.

Karl Marx was sketchy in his vision of a utopian communist society. Because Marx saw himself as a scientist, this caused his reticence to share specifics about a communist society. He went as far as belittling political theorists who gave detailed visions of their rational utopian order.

In one of his views he shared, “where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can be accomplished in any branch he wishes” and where “society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind without ever becoming a hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.” [iii]

In this previous paragraph, is this the reality of a Marxist society? Or, have we witnessed communistic societies monitoring their citizens' every move, and dictating how one earns a living?

Marx also saw that reality was not static. He postulated reality had an inherent knack for developing and change, which he termed “dialectical.” Unfortunately, that dialectical change we observed through a Marxist history brought productive countries to their knees, and societies rife with poverty, crime and corruption.

Karl Marx held a distaste for socialism because of his derangement for a capitalist society. This causes me to note, Adolf Hitler, an avowed socialist, held a severe distaste for communism. Yet, these two political theories hold so much in common. And each of their policies has a distaste for life, especially human life.

The historical record of Marx’s classless society also remains sketchy. It seems the general populace survives classless, but those who are leadership live their lives somewhat different, they sustain a life of affluence. The leadership from Marxist movements do not derive from the spontaneous action of proletarians, but rather from bourgeois intellectuals driven by the Marxist vision. Very few of the classless rose to the top of leadership. Power, influence and wealth at the time of their birth reaffirms their status and keeps them there.

Religion, for Marx, was considered “opiate of the masses.” His “science” stood above all kinds of mistakes about reality. He wished to dissipate these dreams and myths concerning religion. Through the “reform of consciousness,” he wanted to break this illusion which enslaved men’s spirits by enchanted their minds. He wanted to wake a mentally slumbering world, to “wake it from its dreams about itself,” and to make it look at reality for change. [iv]

Is religion an illusion? The Vatican Council (1869/70) declared that, "Faith and reason are of mutual help to each other." Because of our faith, many of us rationalize the validity of our reasoning that there is a God.

Backing up this position, here is a partial list of notable scientists who were also religious leaders:

John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White, scholars like Robert Grosseteste, Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, and Thomas Aquinas, who helped establish the scientific method.

I may have not met these individuals, but one could assume each applied their scientific method of thinking toward their faith. I would also like to add that Catholic scientists have been credited as fathers of a diverse range of scientific fields:

• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) pioneered heliocentrism,
• René Descartes (1596-1650) father of analytical geometry and co-founder of modern philosophy,
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) prefigured the theory of evolution with Lamarckism,
• Friar Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) pioneered genetics, and
• Fr Georges Lemaître (1894-1966) proposed the Big Bang cosmological model.

If you believe the words of Plato and Rosseau, if you are to be human, you must neither be slave nor despot. The betterment of society often develops out of a necessity. The dreams of a one become reality and enhance our human condition. (Hopefully - emphasis mine).