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While discussing communism, one argument you come across is
that communism failed in Russia, hence it has failed.
The question arises that if a certain religious philosophy failed to conquer the world, is that particular religious philosophy a failure? Or if a particular religious philosophy failed to give it’s followers what it had promised, is it a failure?
The followers of religious philosophies will then tell you that it is not so, that it is not the failure of that religious philosophy but it is the men who failed it.
Marxism can be summed up in a single sentence “ From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” I don’t understand how anyone can be against that.
Do I take it too far when I say that Jesus preached communism and apostles practiced it, absolutely not.
In Luke 12:33, Jesus commands his disciples to sell what they have and give alms, and in Luke 14:33 says that no one can be his disciple who has not forsaken all his possessions. Historians generally confirm the view…
