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[[File:KarlMarx.jpg|left|thumb|[[Karl Marx]] ]]

[[File:KarlMarx.jpg|left|thumb|[[Karl Marx]] ]]

The [[Heritage Foundation]] declares about [[atheism and socialism]]:

The [[Heritage Foundation]] declares about [[atheism and socialism]]:

{{Cquote|Socialism in all its forms — [[Marxism-Leninism]] in the [[Soviet Union]], [[Maoism]] in [[China]], “state socialism” in India, “democratic socialism” in Sweden, National Socialism in [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] — has never come close to realizing the classless ideal of its founding father, [[Karl Marx]]. Instead, socialists have been forced to adopt a wide range of capitalist measures, including private ownership of railroads and airlines ([[United Kingdom]]), special economic zones (China), and open markets and foreign investment ([[Sweden]]).

{{Cquote|What most millennials mean by “socialism” seems to be a mix of our [[welfare state]] and what they perceive to be Swedish democratic socialism. But Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries including Denmark favor the free market and are content with private rather than government ownership of their major industries. However, Danish domestic spending including comprehensive health care has a high price — a top personal income tax of 57 percent.

 

Socialism in all its forms — [[Marxism-Leninism]] in the [[Soviet Union]], [[Maoism]] in [[China]], “state socialism” in India, “democratic socialism” in Sweden, National Socialism in [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] — has never come close to realizing the classless ideal of its founding father, [[Karl Marx]]. Instead, socialists have been forced to adopt a wide range of capitalist measures, including private ownership of railroads and airlines ([[United Kingdom]]), special economic zones (China), and open markets and foreign investment ([[Sweden]]).

Marx was an atheist socialist who insisted that his was the only “scientific” socialism based not on wishful thinking but the inexorable laws of history. The whole of history, declared Marx and his close collaborator and friend Friedrich Engels, is the history of the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The inevitable collapse of capitalism and the victory of the proletariat would end the conflict and usher in a classless society and pure socialism or communism (Marx used both terms interchangeably)...

Marx was an atheist socialist who insisted that his was the only “scientific” socialism based not on wishful thinking but the inexorable laws of history. The whole of history, declared Marx and his close collaborator and friend Friedrich Engels, is the history of the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The inevitable collapse of capitalism and the victory of the proletariat would end the conflict and usher in a classless society and pure socialism or communism (Marx used both terms interchangeably)...