The enemy of communism is not capitalism, but Christianity.

Christianity and Communism are irreconcilable. If a Christian claims to be a communist, it is because either they do not know what Christianity is, or they do not know what communism is, or, in the worst case, they do not know what either of them is. Communism is a set of ideas, an ideology, that is more present than ever in Brazilian institutions, starting with the hegemonic thinking in universities and schools. The effects of this ideology are not limited solely to the intellectual realm but have devastating practical consequences in the life choices of countless Christians, especially young people.

I would like to bring an alarming statistic to help us understand the magnitude of the problem we face. Out of every four young Christians, three abandon Christianity at university or even in the last years of high school. The reason for this is that they are not prepared to defend themselves against the weapons of communism in the brutal battles of the so-called cultural war. Part of this lack of preparation comes from not understanding that the war to be fought is not in the economic field, but in education and culture, where countless young people are seduced into abandoning Christianity to adhere to communist agendas and become pawns for one of the collectivist groups, such as feminism, the LGBT movement, black activism, environmentalism, indigenism, among others.

Before we go any further, it is necessary to make it clear that, for you to understand the subtle communist strategies, you must understand that, since the war is no longer in the economic field, we should not say that the adversary of communism is capitalism. If you think it is, you will not be able to understand reality. Note that the communist intelligentsia has learned from practical experience that the economy is untamable, with some even arguing that the laws of economics are as unyielding as those of gravity. Whenever the communist experiment tries to control the economy, the result is disastrous, as can still be seen today in remnants of old communism in less relevant countries. In more mature communist environments, capitalism and communism are united in their globalist impulses. China and Russia are examples of this — in both, by the way, the market is free.

The communist intelligentsia has evolved from Marxist foundations to the influence of the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School. The attack is in the realm of culture, education, and values, and the weapons are, to a large extent, linguistic. Not by chance, there is a strong tendency for us to be complicit with the use of language, not only through the emptying of the meaning of terms like “fascist” or “Nazi,” which, being deliberately trivialized, lose their meaning, but also through the pressure to adopt sectorized forms of language, such as so-called “neutral language.” The emphasis on the power of language is exactly the result of the influence of the Frankfurt School on contemporary communist thought. To give another practical example, the idea that the school educates has become widespread, which, in practice, empties the family’s role of educating and outsources to the state the power to control the moral opinions of children. In reality, the school should not educate, but rather teach. It is the family that educates, but almost no one talks about this anymore.

What the communist intelligentsia learned from 20th-century philosophy is that language has the power to shape the world. The way you speak determines how you think; and the way you think determines how you act. From speech to behavior, passing through thought, the focus of the communist attack shifted from the economy to values, so that the greatest adversary of communism is not capitalism, but Christianity. That is why communism so despises the church and the family, the main Christian institutions. Let’s delve deeper into this understanding.

To understand how the church and the family are the most relevant institutions of resistance against the communist attack, we need to know how one of the most important weapons of communist destruction works: here, I will explain collectivism. The communist strategy is to divide people into groups in order to co-opt ideological militants for political purposes: homosexuals for LGBT activism; women for feminism; blacks for black activism; indigenous people for indigenism, and so on — once the population is segmented, a way of speaking, thinking, and acting is imposed on the group. There you have it, from control of language to control of thought, and from there to control of action — people see themselves collectivized and destroyed in their individuality, having already become pawns of communism.

You may be asking yourself: but what does this have to do with the family and the church? Well, it is within the family nucleus and the environment of the Christian church that the bonds established among members become the greatest obstacles to the intellectual hijacking that communism seeks to promote by placing people into collectivist categories. Note that black activism imposes that there is a specific way for black people to think, just as it does with the other victims of collectivism. If a woman, for example, has a public opinion independent of the feminist movement, she will soon suffer social sanctions imposed by the ideological movement. In Christian churches and families, these compartments are broken down, because everyone understands that they are equal. In fact, the concept of dignity inherent to all people, regardless of color, creed, nationality, etc., comes from the Scriptures, which assure us that all were made in the image and likeness of God and, therefore, have intrinsic dignity simply by being human.

Let’s not be naive. Communism wants to destroy the family and the church. However, in the case of Brazil, the weapons begin by being strategically subtle. The church must strive to conquer the cultural and educational fields; otherwise, the war will be inglorious. As long as the family and the church do not understand that art, language, literature, and the elements of education and culture are what legitimize all other public policies, communism will continue to destroy our youth. In other articles, we will delve deeper into how these struggles take place more specifically in education, in the family, in the field of faith, society, freedom, and government. For now, it is time to wake up and be alert!