Gordon H. Clark
Trade paperback, 51 pages
For over 150 years, the philosophy of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, known as Marxism and similar to its forerunner, the communism of the Jesuits in South America, has been tried in several nations ending almost entirely in misery for the poor souls it has been foisted upon, and often fatally for the dictators doing the foisting. Think of the killing fields in Cambodia of Pol Pot, the Soviet Gulags in Russia, and Ceausescu in Romania. Marxism or Communism has brought brutal misery to billions of people wherever it has been implemented, whether of Lenin and Stalin in the Soviet Union, or Chairman Mao in the "People's Republic" of China. Yet, for all this, new leaders arise touting the "blessings" of Marxism to usher in equality, brotherhood, and peace despite its sordid, violent history of misery. Over fifty years ago, theologian and philosopher Gordon H. Clark wrote Historiography: Secular and Religious on the study of history and its philosophical and religious problems. In his third chapter, Clark moved from non-historical explanations of history such as geographical and physical determinism to historical explanations, beginning with Marxism. In this chapter, Clark applies his Christian, logical, and philosophical understanding to analyze Marxism, especially its views on history, and in so doing he logically and systematically dismantles the philosophy of Marx and Engels and their acolytes. Not only does Clark dismantle the Marxism of his and previous generations, but his analysis and criticism also vitiates postmodern conceptions of Neo-Marxism as seen in Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory, where economic class struggle has been replaced with race, gender, and cultural struggles against oppression by the "white, Christian, heterosexual patriarchy" of Western Civilization.