Is Socialism Jewish?

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.