Is communism the most pleasing system to God?
Every man is treated as equals. Isn't that what America is supposed to be also?
Communism is an atheistic ideology, of course not.
Thus we have arrived at the following conclusions: Attempts at Communism have hitherto failed because:
[1] They were based on an impetus of a religious character instead of considering a community simply as a means of economic consumption and production,
[2] They isolated themselves from society,
[3] They were imbued with an authoritarian spirit,
[41 They were isolated instead of federated,
[5] They required of their members so much labour as to leave them no leisure time, and
[6] They were modelled on the form of the patriarchal family instead of having for an aim the fullest possible emancipation of the individual.
Communism and Anarchy
by Peter Kropotkin
Freedom: July, p. 30. - August, p. 38, 1901.
Equality of opportunity =/= equality of outcome
Commies practice identity politics, have no personal freedom, no private property. It's a totalitarian system where the State owns you.
Biblical economic system would be capitalism or the free libertarian market. Heavy emphasis on individuality (judge people on their personality, not grouping people into a race/class) and the flourishing of exchange of goods.
God made the men superior to women
God not made the people equal
When they discovered, from the admissions of some of them, that there were Catholics mingled with the heretics they said to the abbot “Sir, what shall we do, for we cannot distinguish between the faithful and the heretics.” The abbot, like the others, was afraid that many, in fear of death, would pretend to be Catholics, and after their departure, would return to their heresy, and is said to have replied “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius - Kill them all for the Lord knoweth them that are His” (2 Tim. ii. 19) and so countless number in that town were slain.
>>2486589
Capitalism is satanic.
For only God can judge, and under him we are all equals.
For it is easier for the camel to go through the eye of the needle, than a wealthy and selfish person to get into the Kingdom of God.
Capitalism ultimately pushes selfishness and 'dog eat dog'.
>>2486615
Capitalism is the natural way humans have been conducting trade since the dawn of history.
>You have something I want.
>I have something you want.
>We do an exchange and we both profit.
>Capitalism encourages creativity and growth
Capitalism is forced altruism. If you don't work, you die. No free hand outs.
We live in a fallen world, God made it so we have to work to earn a living. Communism goes against our nature, hence why it always fails.
>>2486558
It shares some similarities concerning how people should be organized, as both are inherently collectivist and encourage men to live for others, not to follow one's own economic interests. One of the reasons European banking families are so often run and held by Jewish folk is because they were once the only people in various European societies that could pursue money without condemnation from the church as it would for your average christian. Indeed, many of the first self-identifying and de facto socialists and communists were the christian utopians of the the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The only major difference is that religion claims power over the spiritual (what happens after life in terms of reward and punishment) while the post-marx socialism and communism were always justified on materialistic grounds, though this simply replaced god with the party and the various cults of personality that grew up around the leaders of said parties.
>>2486589
Capitalism only arose when social structures distanced themselves from organized religion. Notice that the first century when capitalism became a thing -- when the economic system could no longer be called mercantilism with a straight face -- in the 19th century, it came after 2 centuries of religious wars, conflicts and revolutions that created states based upon political models derived from thinkers who were comprised almost entirely of atheists and deists.
In the centuries during which organized religion was most powerful in Europe, agrarian societies existed where economic equality was near universal, besides those who protected them and ruled in the name of god.
in materialistic terms you need only say "in the name of the people" or "the general will" and your half way there to having what someone could call an ideal socialist society. Everyone owns their own produce and to an extent are bound/own their means of production, everyone besides a select few are economically equal.
Engels is infamous for glorifying the medieval and middle ages for this exact reason.