From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Communism, Grundrisse, was Germanism
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 12:53:21 -0700



Subject: Re: Germanism


> Henry wrote:
>
> >  Hitler was never excommunicated from the RC church. The  RC history
> >contains
> >as rabid and perverse a violent 'jihad' as anything in the history of
> >Islam.
>
> No doubt, but describing this as the "core" of (Roman) Christianity is a
bit
> like saying that communism is at the "core" of the US peace movement
because
> so many of its most prominent leaders this century have explicitly
expressed
> either direct or indirect communist sympathies. But I'm sure you wouldn't
> say that.
>
> Anthony Crifasi

The RC has not excommunicated Hitler because Hitler was not an RC. Have to
be an RC to be excommunicated.

And as far as the issue of communism is concerned, primitive communism was
practiced by Xtians. The monastic tradition is itself communist and so are
many Protestant sects such as the Shakers (now passed), Mennonites, and old
world Hutterites. In fact, in Grundrisse, by Marx, communism was one of the
most common forms of civil society during the history of agrarian Europe.
Having property in common is the 'core' basis of communism. Even if there
are forms of private property (eg. in China many own their own homes and a
small plot of farmland around the home, strata title in apartments, private
tenures in public forests such as the US National Forest and Parks system,
etc.) existing in common property, there is an assurance for self-reliance
on individual initiatives to work, and to rest.

Family assets are also a form of restricted common property, as are the
laundries in strata type condominium complexes, etc.

john foster



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