Lesson 2.3 – Socialism’s Centralization of Power

If Dunn and Wilks represent the danger of religious ideology seizing government, socialism represents the same danger through economics and politics. Where dominionists seek to govern by theology, socialists seek to govern by bureaucracy — both lead to unchecked power.

The promise of socialism is equality, but the reality is concentration. By placing ownership and control of industry, commerce, and resources in the hands of the state, socialism eliminates the very checks and balances Madison and Washington designed. In practice, this has meant coercion, corruption, collapse, and mass death, wherever it has been implemented.

The Founders foresaw this danger in principle. Madison warned against “the gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department.” Washington’s Farewell Address cautioned against faction and passion overriding liberty. Both men knew that once government holds the purse, the press, and the pulpit, liberty cannot survive.

Modern jurisprudence echoes these warnings. Justice Gorsuch has insisted that courts must enforce the separation of powers because liberty depends on it:

⭐ “The founders pursued the separation of powers as a vital guard against governmental encroachment on the people’s liberties.”

Justice Thomas, likewise, has stressed that no right may be reduced to a privilege granted by the state. In his words, the Second Amendment — and by extension, all rights — is not a “second-class right.” If socialism teaches that rights come from government, the Constitution answers that they are inherent, pre-political, and inalienable.

Socialism, like dominionism, violates the same principle: government must not dictate belief, speech, or livelihood.Both threaten liberty by making government the master instead of the servant of the people.

Another modern threat comes not from theology or economics, but from identity politics — where radical gender ideology seeks to compel speech and belief in schools, targeting the