Oh blah! Communists, liberals, leftists also use Christianity and the giving” aspect to promote their twisted ideals... They stole that from Christians, so what if they got an idea from Mormons.
It wasn't simply an "idea"...
It was an communistic implementation -- community by community...
That was hardly some disembodied "idea"...Allow me to even have a Mormon author describe how Mormon Communism ran amok in the Soviet Union...Again, remember the following is written by a faithful Mormon (George W. Givens) -- not a non-Mormon:
"One of the most famous utopian books ever written was Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, published in 1889. Some scholars believe Looking Backward had considerable influence in the making of Lenin's Soviet Russia. If this is true, then [ensuing Lds "prophet"] Lorenzo Snow and the Latter-day Saints must receive some of the credit--or blame. Hearing of the success of the United Order in Brigham City, Edward Bellamy made a special trip to Utah in 1886 to study its operation. There he spent three days with Lorenzo Snow, Brigham City's founder and forty-year resident. Impressed with the thirty to forty industries run by its 2,000 inhabitants and the vitality at that time of one of the most successful United Orders, Bellamy returned home and wrote his influential book." (500 More Little-Known Facts in Mormon History, p. 185).
Way to go, 19th century Mormon leader-“prophets” of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor & Lorenzo Snow!!! They all unwittingly fueled Soviet Communism!
So there ya go. Mormon communism in Brigham City, UT in the 1880s. Edward Bellamy visits the commune in 1886 to observe the PRACTICE (not just some "idea") of communism.
"Ah," Bellamy concludes after seeing Mormon communism...communistic utopia can work...Three years later, Bellamy publishes Looking Backward. The book considerably influences Lenin's development of Soviet Russian communism.