Will the Real Enemy Please Stand Up?

Are all the political philosophies equally acceptable? If one answers “yes” then the issue is not a matter of acceptability on principle, but a matter of personal preference. If one answer is no, then it would appear that this response presupposes some criteria for evaluating one system as against another. The issue before I land today is the comparison of capitalism with communism to determine whether or not we live in the shadow of a real enemy, and to further determine who that enemy is.

There are some who believe man’s problems are primarily economic. They further believe that there can be an ass simulation of the tenants of these two political – economic systems toward a solution to these problems. If this is true, then we have nothing to fear; we have no enemy.

This would further indicate that the United States is making a tragic error in Vietnam and Cambodia, best vindicating the campus dissidents.

Is communism to be viewed as a threat to the well-being and continued existence of the western Democratic world? To answer this one must examine the philosophy which underlies the socioeconomic manifestations of this political system. The most fundamental question to be asked is “what is the view of man?“ Does this human creature have value? Is individual man important?

You are unaware of the Marxist answers to these questions. This philosophy is completely materialistic. It insist that man is matter only. He is a biological entity with no spirit; no eternal dimension. He is an object; a productive source of energy to be used in controlled in the best interest of the state. The “state“ is not all people. It becomes a few; those who brutalized their way to positions of power and authority, viewing their persons as expendable objects to be erased at will.

The great tragedy of our day is not our involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia. It is the blindness of people who believe they can relate rationally and constructively to the enemy who used the very existence of others as nothing.

So many in America cannot conceive of this “holy other” cast of mind. We insist on believing that everyone is a “good guy“ in the final analysis. Our blindness is further emphasized because we use the term “good” in our provincial way we refuse to see that “good“ for our enemies is our extermination if we will not submit.

Yes, there is a real enemy out there. An enemy which repudiates our values in refuses to leave the world alone. It is an enemy of insatiable greed under the guise of beneficence. It is an anime “moves“ and consumes – a con victimizing and destroys. The enemy is the “few“ who use the money to gain control of the world.

The students on our campuses demonstrate and strike. They take strong exception to our president‘s foreign policy. They put their lives on the line out of conviction that our nation moves on wisely. These young idealist, See only impart. They are inspired by the radical left and the wedding and unwitting Marxist. Man do not realize that they attacked the wrong Powers. they do not see who the enemy is.

The villains become our president, the “system”, the “industrial war complex”. They respond as a human organism which malfunctions one invaded by a fatal virus. Instead of producing antibodies to attack and destroy the invader, and produces substances which seek to destroy the healthy tissue. The end result is total weakening and death.

If there is health in this world of nations, it lies among those who still see in some measure that reality belongs to God. It is those who can view men as a creature of eternal value to be loved and respected by others. This view still characterizes the United States of America in large measure. It is the obvious antithesis of the communist view of man!

Yet we view a kind of madness; our student world possessed of a spirit, which would turn the tide of events towards America’s capitulation and the death of freedom. If many of our students would sit still long enough to determine who the enemy is, the scene might change.