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Please excuse my naïveté here, but communism is an economic system and not a form of government, no? My understanding is that economics and governance are larg

• fnovd 4y ago
  Marxist theory says that the separation between economic and state power is illusory at best and intentionally deceptive at worst. So a communist isn't going to think it possible to separate economic and state power, whereas that concept of that separation of powers is a foundational component of modern liberalism. It's why the two camps have a such a hard time talking to each other; they really don't see things the same way.
• mongol 4y ago
  I don't see how they can be kept separate. Governance is to a large degree the creation of policies for managing of resources, and managing resources is what economics is about.
• livelielife 4y ago
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  • barrysteve 4y ago
    Communism was a political and economic system. When stalin and hitler dipping their toes in faith/religion/belief it all went wrong and collapsed-in on itself. Ancient Rome had government and politics before religion. The last two thousand years had state religions at some points and the churches have their beliefs on governance, which they do internally and influence the world externally to some degree. They are separate concepts and communism never reached the level of an effective religion. It's not easy to wash away the distinction between concepts.
    • mr_toad 4y ago
      > Ancient Rome had government and politics before religion. Except that they deified many emperors and forced everyone to worship them - which was the main source of conflict with Christians. Communism opposed religion because they were competing theories of inequality.