We just had a sermon on the Tenth Commandment. Thou shalt covet is the core principle of Marxism. Marxist revolutions would go nowhere if everyone was content with their life, and content to improve their life only through honest work and earned reward. But Marxism thrives on envy. I think it is a central reason that Satan has used it to inflict so much evil on humans. It is a direct defiance of the law of God. I don’t believe most Marxists or Marxist sympathizers understand the extent to which they are being used as pawns in the greater spiritual struggle between God and Satan. This is a grudge match. There is no winning for Lucifer, so he strives to offend the honor of God as much as He can in the limited time He has.
Which is why the tenth commandment is the key. Covetousness is idolatry, in violation of the first and second commandments. It leads to lying and murder and disrespect and lust and all the other manifestations of evil, as the ends are used to justify the means. Covetousness is the anti-love principle, as directly opposed to God as anything can be.
This is the real reason, as has been widely observed, that Marxists are so often the most unhappy, unloving cranks. They live in this empty anti-love universe, where everything revolves around them, where everything and everyone that stirs up their envy becomes a subhuman object to be hated and destroyed.
Which is why it is so very dangerous for spiritual leaders of any faith to enable the envy by sanctioning the use of governmental force in fulfilling the lusts of these pseudo-collectivist cranks. Any such leader, I do not care who he is or how well intended he is, has played into the hands of the evil one when he encourages any government to supplant by force the role of personal, voluntary generosity. It is the conversion of a virtue into a vice, the opening of a portal into the deepest sewers of the human soul, and a great moral evil.
Which is why Communists have no place for Christianity.