Thanks for your very knowledgeable input, that was well said.

NO! Communism is not just an economic theory or even a political view but a Weltanschauung - sort of like a pseudo-religion as Nazism was. It calls for a violent, bloody revolution and ending tradition. Marxists also have a very materialistic take on history and see everything in terms of ‘classes’ and ‘wealth’. They’re all talk about ‘oppressors’ and the ‘oppressed’ and oppose property rights as well as religious values.

Leftist Palestinian terrorist groups such as, for instance, the PFLP, are Marxists and generally non-Muslim. But like Islamic fundamentalists, they share a world view that is about revolution and the struggle against the ‘opressors’. That is also the reason why Marxism and Islamic fundamentalism with its religious concept of Jihad (’holy war’, ’struggle’) mix so well. Should it come as a suprise that the current Iranian regime was established through a Marxist/Jihadist ‘Islamic Revolution‘? Should it come as a suprise that the ideologies of countries like Libya, Egypt, Syria and Iraq under the Baath party - all of them supporting the Jihad against the ‘Jewish aggressor’ - is a form of nationalistic Socialism (Fascist-like) and supported by the Soviet Union?

This is yet another piece of strong evidence of how flawed and resentful Marxism really is. But still people don’t get it or refuse to get it.

What we need in society is liberty and virtues, the latter being offered to us in part through tradition. There’s no such thing as ’society’ in itself - society consists of individuals. Society is the whole of individuals. Society will benifit only if one works primarily for the benifit of the individual - not the so-called ‘common good’. Society will function and order will be created if the individual is taught virtues such as forgiveness, love and respect in his family by his parents - one father and one mother - and punished for infringing on others.

The only modern economic system fully compatible with the central importance of the individual, traditional family values, individual responsibility and Liberty is Capitalism. In its purest form, Capitalism goes against to gov’t support for big business and classes because it is a system based on the individual and liberty, unlike Communism which calls for a ’shared’ means of production - usually owned by some form of gov’t.

People need to understand that Communism is essentially no better than Nazism. I hate and despise Communism as much as I resent Nazism. Whoever as a Christian dares to say Marxian Communism is somehow compatible with Christianity needs a reality-check and reconsider whether he is actually a Christian! The Red scum killed over a 100 million people and is in its watered-down version of Social Democracy passionately working against the individual, liberty, our Christian beliefs, and God’s chosen people by sympathizing with Islamic violence that even some Muslims do not approve of themselves. Still, some airheads are prone to walk around wearing T-shirts depicting the head of a relentless mass-murderer named Che Guevarra (B.I.H.).

I got a bit off-topic here but I had to get this off my mind. I’m sick of that Marxist-influenced post-modern nonsense we hear every day and also how it infiltrates even in the evangelical churches, especially among those of ‘my’ generation. The younger generation, that is.