What is Socialism?

[RDKirk]

The Body of Christ is based on Christ himself, not a communist slogan.

Maybe you should check your sources, given that your quote was created by the God hating Karl Marx, hardly a good source of wisdom!
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

Communism and Socialism are evil theologies entirely based on covetousness and envy. Slogans like the above are used to exploit the sinful and selfish natures of fallen men.
Despite certain (apparent) parallels between Socialism and Christianity, the former can only operate by robbing people of freewill and their wealth.

Socialist politicians gather their votes by pointing to your rich neighbour, and promising that their policies will supply your needs from that neighbour's wealth.

Exodus20v17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Socialism and communism turns the above scripture on its head and uses covetousness as a virtue to legalises theft.

No matter how much socialism and communism are dressed up, they are Antichrist ideologies.

I studied Communism professionally for over twenty years. I'm perfectly aware of who coined that particular phrase.

I'm also aware that it's precisely what Christ demands of members of His Body. Jesus does, indeed, demand of us to use our God-given talents to the best of our ability, and as well He demands that we take no more of the God-given resources than we actually need, not to store them up in "bigger barns," but to use them to bless His other servants.

Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.” -- 2 Corinthians 9

The fact that Marx could have said this same thing does not invalidate the fact that the Lord said it first in scripture. It's no surprise to me that an anti-Christ would attempt to imitate Christ. It's what anti-Christs do.

The existence of a counterfeit does not invalidate the genuine.

 

[Francis Drake]

I studied Communism professionally for over twenty years. I'm perfectly aware of who coined that particular phrase.

Then you should have had the honesty to present it as from Karl Marx rather than from a Godly source..

 

[RDKirk]

Then you should have had the honesty to present it as from Karl Marx rather than from a Godly source..

Well, from now on I'll just say, "The goal is equality" and "Believers in Christ hold everything in common."