The original premise for the whole came about during the 2004 presidential election cycle when Socialist Walter F. Brown came under personal attack for his pro-life stance made public, by a small, but determined pro-choice secularists of the Socialist Party of the United States of America. The unfolding events lead to a national referendum to dismiss "Walt" as their candidate for president. In the end the smaller faction lost the nationwide vote and Walt remained the candidate. For the first time in recent history Walt further rubbed salt in their wounds as he had a record amount of recorded votes nationwide, at over 10,500 plus. To date, no later candidate has broken this new record or support within the socialist movement except the well known Eugene Debs. Both of which moved to try and protect socialism from totalitarianism.
Inset photo (2004) showing Walt after long day of campaigning with founder of Christian Socialist Party USA Atlee Yarrow talking about the anti-Christian communist infiltration of the party.
During 2005 the same small faction from within ate like a worm to a rotting apple to move once again their candidate to the front. Later in 2007 after loosing once more but gaining National Committee control began in 2008 expelling those who voted against or stood against their candidate after loosing by just a handful of votes to a sightly more neutral candidate.
The 2006 midterm elections is where much of the ideas began to form and a basic website was launched along with several networking group pages. The first website did not take off due to technological problems and software related issues; however, Christians will gather and that they did.
In 2009, the older and now more divided party has spun off several new ideas. Sadly the few remaining in the old party have all but strangled it with ideological purity purges while attempting to redefine democracy as being "one and no other" against social scientific knowledge and research. Many here already know that this is a direct relation to demographic of age and education both lacking.
The following video was made to try and intimidate with libel, but comes short of the truth. It is however revealing to how small they have become in membership and mindset. Not unlike what is described in Romans 1:22-32. Christians have long been attacked for their beliefs, it is how we deal with such hardships that make us better. Truth and light to those in need; fear not those who espouse hate for their political correctness over God.
Over time we realize all shall pass as Christians have been around for 2,000+ years and socialism (in name, not †concept) more recent since 1700s. We have time on our side and the history and research to back it up.
† It is important to note that conceptually socialism without this direct naming came hundreds of years before from Greek and through theological and philosophy of what would become modern Europe. A prime example from history's persons and writings, commonly available today, is the book Utopia by a scholar with talents Sir Thomas More in 1516.
Christianity because everything we need to learn as far as morals and values come from divine authority and not mankind. It is our combined belief as citizens of the United States of America that when our inalienable rights were endowed by our Creator to protect and spread His gospel. In the beginnings of our great nation we suffered religious split and sought-after the freedom to believe what we wanted. In doing so we became a secular nation of Christians for the conveniences of not having a state religion; however, certain modern organizations have taken advantage of our kindness and mistaken it for weakness. Today this changes.
Socialism is not Marxist because of the violent nature malformation of communism's history. It leans to the central radical nature of thought to be progressive while still maintaining civil society. For those who came long before Marx and who today rewrite, review, and study socialism and not Marxism or any of Marxism's hyphenations.
Early thoughts pre-Marxian on the idea of socialism come from:
Thoughts concurrent with Marx, but non-Marxist and anti-Hegelian come from:
Many children over the years have read Utopia by Sir Thomas More. What those children might not of learned was that in America the early settlers not only came here to escape religious persecution, but later claimed in their independence a motion against any singular state religion yet uniquely gave equal rights inalienable by their Creator.
These different sects began to set up utopic styled communities based on co-operative needs i.e. Shakers, Owenites, Quakers, Mennites, Amish, Mormons.
Their systems of foundational knowledge since the mid-19th century for social, economic, and judicial were based from within on their respective scriptures. Christian activist of their day as today, turn from the liberal laissez-faire individualism to seek out more social programs with aims at socialism with religious and ethical convictions of Christianity.
Even today there can be found worldwide the religious through International Communities.
A looking forward version of the perfect world and universe can be seen in all the Star Trek series.
During the early 1990s, the term 'communitarianism' was appropriated by a small group of mainly American social scientists, linked by a common hostility to the philosophies of liberalism and libertarianism. The sociologist Amitai Etzioni - The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society, 1996 - was one of the prominent founder of this movement. Etzioni argues that the advanced industrial societies of the capitalist West suffer from 'rampant moral confusion and social anarchy' because individuals have been given too much freedom and not enough responsibilities. Etzioni and other communitarians are in favor of more obligations and fewer rights. They tend to shun economic explanations of social problems, preferring instead to blame everything from crime to excessive consumerism on the moral decline of the family, much of which can be traced to the increasing employment of women outside the home. Etzioni claims this has not created a 'parenting deficit' which parents 'effective personality formation' in infant, increasing reliance on child-care facilities that often amount to little more than 'kennels for kids', and in due producing a generation of young people who lack the moral fiber to resist crime, drugs, and early sex.
Equitable
Communitarians deny that they are advocating a return to the 1950s style division of labor (formal employment for men, back into the home for women), and proffer instead a range of 'pro-family practices and policies', such as Etzioni's ideas for 'peer marriage' (a two parent family, in which each partner has the same rights to extend 'family leave' after the birth of children, underwritten by a hardening of the laws against divorce). More broadly, communitarians favor a social order in which 'the community' identifies the common good, and persuades its members to act towards it. In this way arguments in favor of safer driving will succeed because they have moral force.
Criticism
Communitarians claim to have influenced the development of social policy in America (Etzioni was a policy adviser to the Clinton administrations) and Britain (where communitarian ideas are said to have favor with New Labour). Community policing, for example, is a policy consistent with communitarian ideals. Critics have suggested that communitarian arguments are both vague and naive. Who will pay for extended parental leave of absence from employment? What if 'the community' endorses values such as homophobia or racialism? What happens to dissenters, who refuse to conform to the ideas of the two parent family and marriage for life, and are not persuaded by exhortation alone? Communitarian social policies are also said to be authoritarian in effect if not intention.
Broken Windows Thesis
A thesis which links disorderly behavior to fear of crime, the potential for serious crime, and to urban decay in American cities. It is often cited as an example of communitarian ideas informing public policy.
In 1982 political scientist James Wilson and criminologist George Kelling published an article under the title 'Broken Windows', arguing that policing in neighborhoods should be based on a clear understanding of the connection between order-maintenance and crime prevention.