Dragaera

OSC on the virtues of writer's block

Thu Dec 4 22:04:25 PST 2003


On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 Talpianna at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/4/2003 3:53:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> matthew at infodancer.org writes:
> >>>I don't see any support for communism in Christianity unless you
> are coming into the question with a preconception that communism
> is a moral and desirable form of government/economics and other
> forms are neither moral nor desirable.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Many of the early Christians did in fact practice communism, that is, they
> lived in communes and shared property.  This voluntary communism has little or
> nothing to do with the Marxist-Leninist state-imposed version.
>
>                                 tal


Some later Christian communities did so as well - the Shakers come to
mind.  I don't know of any persistently successful communes, unless the
Quakers counted at some point.