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A simple illustration for a blogpost. I may not have been the first one to do this.

It is a fairly common accusation against Atheism that it's somehow guilty of Communism. It's a strawman but I decided to dig a little in the archives at marxists.org and wrote a blogpost about it showing that the history of Communism is entangled with Christians and that the roots can be traced right back to the Reformation.
One person also stands out, Wilhelm Weitling, the "first German Communist" according to Engels. Engels and Marx picked up a lot of his ideas from him.

"The best method is to bring the existing social disorder to the last extreme. The worse, the better! The most trustworthy revolutionary element which could be relied upon to wreck present society was, according to Weitling, the lowest grade proletariat, the lumpenproletariat, including even the robbers." - David Riazanov: "Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, An Introduction to Their Lives and Work"


Read all about it:

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“le Christianisme c'est le Communisme”

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:icondragonsmana:
Great! Nice work! Just goes to show, that there isn't anything a little fact checking can't fix.

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I don't like that, because Iam Communist and I don't feel in any way connected with christianity

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You should also note, at least initially, that Communism had a lot of Jewish support as well. Makes you wonder what the source of those stars on the Communist flags mean. Anyway, go atheists!

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:icondashofdaniel:
What kind of Communist are you? The kind that co-exists alongside other forms of economy, or the kind that imposes their preference onto everyone else with guns?

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Heh...

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I see. However, I bet that'd also spark some controversy if some far right extremist saw this. You would be lynched in a minute. No offense.^^;

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