Is
Socialism Jewish?
Socialism is an insidious doctrine because Socialism falsely
appeals to the better side of our natures as Jews and as human beings. By dishonest
and deceptive means, Socialism co-opts the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam, the command
to repair the world, to do good works, a virtue that, while innate to human
beings, reflects a person’s character and is something that is learned and
promoted by faith family and culture. Socialism exploits and, as such, perverts
this natural human tendency, one that offers the individual the gift of a sense
of meaning and purpose in life, by replacing volitional and moral human action,
Tukkun Olam, with the godless man-made state. Socialism turns Tikkun Olam into
an agenda to change human nature and, as such, to create, ultimately, a collectivist
one world ant colony.
A free and, as such, a moral society is one that consists
of an imperfect system of laws that encourage and aid the individual who seeks to
repair the world by preserving, protecting and defending the inalienable right of
individual to repair himself. A free society establishes parameters and
provides infrastructure by which the free citizen can repair himself and, as
such, repair the world. At the same time the free society regulates excesses and
corruptions that are associated with free will and freedom of action and, as
such, a free society tempers and restrains the darker tendencies of human
nature.
Human nature does not need to be changed and, at any rate, human
nature cannot be changed. We are imperfect beings created in the image of God
but we are not God and, as such, we will never be perfect or, at the end of the
day, we will not be changed at least not by the hand of man. We are capable,
however, of change as individuals and we can, as such, repair the world. We can
engage in Tikkun Olam as individuals or by working with others. Individuals and voluntary groups thus engage
in Tikkun Olam as a reflection of personal values and in order to fulfill an
innate inner need.
God gave us a blueprint, a constitution if you will, for
how to repair the world and that is the Torah.
The Torah identifies names and separates all basic elements of existence
physical as well as spiritual and abstract. The Torah offers a guidebook in
terms of proper and improper means of interacting with each other in all basic
aspects of our relationships personal and business as well as a code of conduct
and rules of interaction for sovereign nations. By learning the ways and the means
of the Torah we are set free, within these guidelines, to live our lives, to
create, to invent, to influence and to determine the course of our own lives
and our own destinies within the concept of what is possible.
We can repair the world, as we have often done in the
United States, by creating a society of law that recognizes and fosters freedom
so that the citizen is free to improve himself to the extent that he chooses to
do so. Tikkun Olam can have a concentric effect, like a drop of water in a pool
the ripples outward. Tikkun Olam, Mitzvah, Tzadakah, Rachmanos, these affect
others and hold the potential to create wider circles which could reverberate
across the world. We do not need the gun-backed state to effect Tikun Olam,
even if that state is controlled, in fact especially if that state is
controlled by imposters who pose as enlightened ones who promise to change the
world and human nature.
This is the lie of the Garden of Eden. The serpent promised
Eve that she and Adam could know all things, could be all things, by partaking
in the forbidden fruit. Adam and Eve
turned their backs on God, indeed they performed an act that attempted to
overthrow God, when they partook in the forbidden fruit. Since that time, men
and women have had the option of choosing God, with all of the mystery and
imperfection that accompanies this choice, or Man, which is a godless rule by a
clique of men and women who claim to be enlightened, who feel justified in the use
of force to change human nature and, as such, to try to redefine existence and,
essentially, to try to become God.
The Socialist promise is intoxicating and alluring, a claim
that man is the originator of all things and that man can be a god. The problem
with the Socialist promise is that it is false while the belief in God, a
supernatural being that exists outside of the human mind is, to use the phrase
founding father Thomas Jefferson put in the Declaration of Independence,
self-evident. The Socialist lie and deception has existed in every generation since
the days of Adam and Eve. The idea of being part of replacing the creator of
the universe, the law-giver, the supreme being whose laws are beyond human
manipulation with a clique of humans taking the law into their own hands and
defining reality is indeed alluring. This has been the religion of every
socialist movement from the Reign of Terror to the Communists and the Nazis,
all of which called themselves progressive and all of which sought earthly
control in the name of science.
As Jews, we seek to change ourselves by looking for
guidance to the Torah, which we consider to be the word of God. The importance
of believing that the Torah is the word of God, a concept that is central to
our faith, is that the laws, the morals and the ethics that are contained within
the Torah are, as such, immutable and are beyond the power to be manipulated
and corrupted by the imperfect and corrupted mind and hand of man. The Torah is,
as such, the blueprint for how we are to live our lives, how we are to engage
with each other and how nations are to engage with each other.
Judaism is not compatible with Socialism. While we believe
that God created us in his image, Socialism holds, as the first tenet of its
political faith, that man is an evolving animal. We believe that the human
being is a spiritual being with a soul. Socialism holds the material view that
man is a human resource and that the individual exists at different rungs of
the evolutionary chain and is, as such, not created equal. We believe the in
the volitional ability of the individual to reason and, as such, to understand
right and wrong. Socialism holds Collectivism, absolute equality, the one world
ant colony as the true goal of human society and as the ultimate virtue.
We believe in God, they believe in Man.
