To: RightWhale
It's not really a conclusion, more of a stray thought. Early Christians, some of them, had communes and might be considered prototypical communists. Secular communism is what they bought in China, but they might have been predisposed for it by early religious communal thinking.
Do note that the idea of communes etc. is pre-Christian and in China seems to have been brought along with Buddhism. The Chinese form of communism is really nothing more than totalitarianism -- something China has experienced for the past 2000 years. It's like Russia -- they are not used to democracy, they've always been ruled by a ruler with an iron fist and cannot adjust to anything else. Compare these nations to nations that are more used to chaos viz. democracy(!) like th US, the UK, India etc. They have long histories of multiple groupings within the country with no centralised power lasting for too long.
92 posted on
07/07/2004 4:37:53 PM PDT by
Cronos
(W2K4)
To: Cronos
No doubt. A lot of Christianity was also pre-Christian. Makes the new thing more palatable if it is like the old thing.
97 posted on
07/07/2004 5:19:06 PM PDT by
RightWhale
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