Communism is part of Western civilization. Western civilization created it.
Communism is part of Western civilization. Western civilization created it.
It has become a way to justify imposing the old idea of total control of the population by an elite group.
The historian Will Durant argued Marxism is a perverted Christian heresy. Marx took God and replaced Him with the force of material dialectics. Mankind is headed towards a future paradise, but it's not heaven, it's the point of full communism. the worker replaced "the poor" and collectivism has become Marx's new Church.
As such, Communism is indeed a product of Christian Western Civilization.