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==Modern communism==

==Modern communism==

The first false dichotomy of communism is the notion that capitalism and communism are competing ideologies. While communism is built on an [[ideology]] that justifies murder and theft, capitalism is built upon the [[natural law]] that you cannot consume that which has not been not been first produced.  Author Lee Smith explains:

The first false dichotomy of communism is the notion that capitalism and communism are competing ideologies. While communism is built on an [[ideology]] that justifies murder and theft, capitalism is built upon the [[natural law]] that you cannot consume that which has not been not been first produced.  Author Lee Smith explains:

{{quotebox-float|"Communism has nothing to do with ideology. Ideology (lifting the masses out of [[poverty]], making all people [[equal]], etc.) is just cover for [[class war]]. But the class war is not, as Marxists describe it, between the proletarian masses and the bourgeoisie. Rather, the proletariat is simply the instrument that the oligarchic elite—known in the Soviet Union, for instance, as the [[nomenklatura]]—uses to keep the middle classes at bay while they steal their wealth."<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/americas-top-general-reads-marx-but-does-not-understand-how-its-destroying-america_3874251.html</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|"Communism has nothing to do with ideology. Ideology (lifting the masses out of [[poverty]], making all people [[equal]], etc.) is just cover for [[class war]]. But the class war is not, as Marxists describe it, between the proletarian masses and the [[bourgeoisie]]. Rather, the [[proletariat]] is simply the instrument that the [[oligarch]]ic elite—known in the Soviet Union, for instance, as the [[nomenklatura]]—uses to keep the [[middle class]]es at bay while they steal their wealth."<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/americas-top-general-reads-marx-but-does-not-understand-how-its-destroying-america_3874251.html</ref>}}

===Maoism===

===Maoism===