WHAT’S WRONG WITH COMMUNISM? 1 Corinthians 9:10.

Communism sounds good: workers pool resources, then divide things up so everyone gets what they need. Each player sitting at the poker table puts in what they have. Then the all-seeing government divides up the “kitty.” The man with eight kids gets eight shares more than the man with no children. The widow who lives alone gets a token to meet her needs. And the government takes only what it needs. Allegedly. There are those among us to whom Communism sounds ideal.

Here are the problems.

1. “Humanism” says people are not sinful but good. The Bible says all men are sinners. America’s founders chose a wiser approach: capitalism understands that people are motivated by “enlightened self-interest” and the system works because each person works hard to provide for his own family.
2. Workers bringing resources to the table in a Communist system will not turn everything over to the government but will hold some back.
3. Remember “GROUP WORK” in school? That’s Communism in a nutshell.
4. Workers who know their resources will be taken from them, will not work as hard, because there is no motivation to pour your life into a crop if you can’t keep your harvest. (Communism destroys INCENTIVE.) When the entire nation works with no incentive, the nation’s output is MUCH smaller—and there will not be enough to go around.
5. No one’s needs will be met.
6. A government that must collect 100% of the resources, then redistribute them to the people “according to their needs,” ends up being a MASSIVE and EXPENSIVE government. The government becomes the biggest, most wasteful drain on the nation’s economy.
7. The government is NOT honest, but filled with corruption. Leaders skim money off the top every chance they get, leaving LESS to go around.**

Not only does the Bible warn that men are sinners, but the Bible also says that people work best when they get to keep what they harvest. The advantage of working alone, versus group work, is that you reap what you sow. If you work hard, you will be blessed by the results.

“When the plowman plows, and the harvester harvests, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest” 1 Corinthians 9:10.

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**By the way, this list only reports some of the problems with the lack of incentive created by Communism. The system’s other terrible features, such as Communism’s use of mass-murder and even genocide to achieve its aims are beyond the scope of 1 Corinthians 9:10.