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Kate's avatar

Communism doesn’t look good even on paper because it’s necessarily founded on atheism, and we can all see what a disaster that has created over the last 50 years or so.

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MarcusBierce's avatar

No, lack of religion is not where it fails. It fails because it tries to “fix” natural human hierarchies via force

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suannee's avatar

I already said it above, but I'll say it here as well. As an aside, monasteries were and are communes - communist.

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Kate's avatar

Wrong. Communists are atheists. They think the state will save you. That's really all the refutation that need be said, but among the other differences that could be mentioned, Christian monks typically take vows of poverty, to own nothing. Communists propose equality, enforce poverty for the masses, and enrich themselves.

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