| scottie said: I hesitate to get involved with the above debate, but you're both very wrong.
Statesments such as "Communism is a political ideology not a religion. Just because one man is in charge of erything and thinks himself better than everyone else deosnt make communism reeligion." are incorrect. Communism is NOT a political ideology, nor is it possible for one man to be in charge of a Communist Country.
Communism is an economic system, non of you would say capitalism is a political ideaology I trust?
You can have a capitalist democracy, such as America, Australia, and to some reasonable degree, the UK You can have a communist democracy, such as was seen in Russia 1917 to about 1920, before Lenin started messing with it a bit, and then Stalin completely fucked it up soon after. The word Soviet, refered to a local, deomcratically elected council.
You can have a capitalist dictatorship (Mubarak or any of his ilk), or even a captialist monarchy, as seen in Europe in around the 1800s.
You can't really have a Communist Dictatorship, one of the main points of Communism is that the power rests in the hands of the people.
Russia and China were/are Stalinist Dictatorships, which bear very little resemblance to Communism as espused by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, or the popular opinion of the Communists (before Stalin killed off everyone who felt that way, that is) |
It still is an ideology. An ideology is just a set of beliefs, and communism relies on a set of beliefs. It might not be an ideology in itself but it sure as hell relies on one (or any variation that people like to make).
You could say that the ideology in which many communists would rely contradicts the set of beliefs of members of the church (historically).
I might be wrong, but saying that communism is agaisnt religion for the hell of it is downright ignorant.
