@Red : I still think you're mistaking my meaning, and the basis for my views, on most things. I suppose there could be an "objective" list of points unique to "communism", but I am not that much of an authoritarian, not even on the level of Daniel Webster. I use common associations, by which I could make a fair case that most Americans favor at least one of Marx's core principles or assertions. Maybe Mark Levin or Andrew Wilkow would score a perfect zero, but even a Sean Hannity gets a couple of points.
Most Mormons today do not consider their communist origins with the likes of Sidney Rigdon and "communism" was present in the Americas in several little areas at certain times, as people tried to emulate the early Christion practices. During the most serious times of persecution, Christians developed a manner of helping one another associated with an idea of total worldly sacrifice.
SonnieJohnson and Tupac Jesus, however he spells his name, might be the most enthusiastic black advocates of "Capitalism" today, and they talk a lot about the commies everywhere.
Dalamon and others in here I know are some modern variant of "communist" progressives, who would likely score a little higher than you, and I think Game would not be really quite on your level. But you missed the point that it's not just your use of the "history" concept quite characteristically as many do who believe in Hegelian or Marxist direction or progress, as an inexorable social process that will work us on through towards a "better way" as they dream it.
If my Marxist true-blue believing friend, who used to keep me awake on a two hour commute every day, were here, he's call the lot of you "Statists", and reject you as complete phonies as "Communist".
He would also, like the simplest Mormon ever, give me his shirt off his back and his last dime, if I needed it.
