But, what, then, are the “errors of Russia” as they were
developing at the time of the Bolshevik-Russian Revolution shortly after the
Fatima apparitions? It would seem that they include,
among other things, the following list of characteristics:
- A reductively
atheistic materialist world-view which aims at
undermining anything Christian in society;
- An
ideology that is disconnected from Truth and reality;
- A cultural
Marxism that later permeated also the West with the help of the Frankfurt School and Antonio Gramsci’s
ideas;
- A revolutionary
socialistic spirit that undermines especially major aspects of family life
– especially with the help of feminism, divorce and abortion;
- A Hegelian
dialectic philosophy, along with dialectic materialism, which claims that
strife and ongoing contention in society are necessary in order to bring
about higher and unfolding forms of life; such an approach essentially
denies and purportedly transcends the principle or law of
non-contradiction.
- A
form of governing “revolutionary socialism” that is also constitutionally
called “Democratic Centralism,” the latter formulation meaning that things
have the appearance of being openly democratic, yet they are all centrally
organized and managed in the background (Dr. Robert Hickson recently applied
this principle to the current situation in the Church – especially with
regard to the Family Synods – here);
- A disregard
for tradition and for the traditional institutions of society (or now of
the Church, such as the Curia?) as “counter-revolutionary forces”;
- A deceitful
misuse of language with the intent to manipulate the public;
- A method
of branding one’s own opponents with sweeping and demeaning epithets that
abstractly categorize them as “right-wing” or “counter-revolutionary” [and
what about the most-common term in use among the left: “fascist”?];
- An
approach to ongoing revolutionary changes where there is both “a slow path” and “a fast path” of the Revolution;
such is “the Dialectic” and the “dialectical process”;
- Toward
more moderate and compromising opponents, one first tries to incorporate
them into the professed new system so as to use
them as Lenin’s “useful idiots” in the sense that they help give to the
world the illusory idea that nothing has really changed;
- As
a last element – but of course a very important and painful one for those
who lived under Communism – there is a constant sense of distrust and
fear, unto the imprisonment and killing of one’s intransigent opponents.