Ed T
"I am confused as to how your comments relate to the topic?"
On this particular occasion I was responding to Sailor Jack's posting;
"Marxism the true path", he was echoing Guest's Concerned statement way, way back.
I, like you, am at a loss as to why it should have a place here - unless you put it down to Futwick's question: "How does atheism differ from Marxism?"
The hint that atheists might be closet Marxists does, I believe, lurk behind all these arguments.
I certainly didn't introduce Marxism into these threads - I don't know enough about the subject to have done so.
Stim was an early contender in comparing atheism with Communism by declaring Stalin (the 'failed' priest') to be a devout atheist on the 'Militant atheism has become a religion' thread.
I have no intention of defending the track records of countries which claim to be Marxists; I just thought it worthwhile to point out that Marxism is a socio/political/economic theory and is not a religion. It has never been anything other than a theory anyway; an aim for the time in the case of some countries, but never a practiced system of society (unless you count the Diggers and the early days of the Paris Commune).
Jim Carroll