Who is the first communist?

 The West especially the Americans, have been badmouthing Communism as if it is a plague. The Communist ideology is far from it.  It is about building an utopia, peace and equality for all happy human beans.

Historically, Communism is associated with violence, uprising, rebellion, wars and destruction as the poorer population rebelled against the control, oppression and exploitation of the rich capitalists and landlords. The process is painful with many upheavals and deaths. After the early phase it would be a phase of rebuilding and reconstruction under very difficult conditions as the poor would have to start from scratch like in China. And there would also be the imperialist and capitalist forces to contend with.

In brief, Communism is about equality and sharing of wealth, pooling of capital, no private ownership of land and resources.  Everything is own by the state. People live together and share everyone for the common good. If the country is rich, everyone would share the riches and vice versa.  Communism had be smeared and demonised as a bad thing by the West, poor people, poverty, unhappy struggle for existence.

Sometime in year 0, one man stood up to defend the poor, gathered a lot of poor followers to live like the communists, in communes, sharing of food and whatever they had. They were mostly poor peasants, the rejects of society, the outcast. They wondered around, homeless, with no property to call their own, living from hand to mouth, sharing their food with their brothers and sisters.

This man was Jesus. Jesus was the first communist. His followers were the pioneer communists. They lived in communes sharing everything, food etc etc. No private property.  Subsequently the churches were built in his name. The organisation structure of the churches were like the communist party, with central committees, cadres and cell groups, and confession of sins.

Karl Marx, a Jew, must have his inspiration from the lives of Jesus and his fellow communists. His ideology inspired a lot of the poor peasants to believe that they could build themselves a better society and could live happily in a peaceful utopia. This utopia is very similar to the utopia called Heaven, where all men are brothers, are equal, except some are more equal than others.

In practice, the ideal communist utopia is a difficult construct on earth. Many communist states are actually in a long process towards the ultimate utopia. This phase of a long march towards their dreamland is what socialism is all about, trying to build a fairer, just and more equal society for all, and hopefully ending in a communist utopia like heaven.

Now why would people believing in Jesus, the first communist, going to church that organised itself and practised like a communist organisation, no democratic election, be so against Communism? It is like someone drinking wine but condemning wine, unable to notice that wine is the wine they are drinking and enjoying. Jesus and the churches are the living images of Communism in another name, heaven is utopia in another name.

The churches, especially the Catholic Church, has all the structures and organisations that you can find in a communist state. Cadres/comrades, the primates/central committee members, the cardinals, bishops, pope, have their equivalents in the communist leadership hierarchy, the secretaries, assistant secretaries, the chairman, all rose within the ranks of a select few party members, trained in the same doctrine. The churches survived on the charity of its members, commonwealth, sharing of wealth. The church is the biggest communist organisation.

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