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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 [[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>}}

{{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 [[proletariat|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===