Ideal communism has not yet been seen in a government. An ideal
communism would have freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and every
other freedom we enjoy except for a free market. The idea behind
communism is that everyone will be equal, the problem with this is that in
a nation of millions of people some form of government is needed to collect
and redistribute the wealth, this often creates dictators and then creates
severe inequality in wealth between the government and the citizens.
This is no better than the economies of medieval times of lords and
peasants.
In religious orders, however, each person who joins has freely given up
the right to his wealth. This is what is needed to make communism work.
Communism can never be forced on someone. In religious orders each
member takes a vow of poverty, then the head of the religious order,
often the pope, redistributes the money according to what each person
needs. This is another important aspect, the leader must be righteous,
not greedy. While there have been some sinful popes, most of them
have been righteous and not greedy and this is why communism has
worked there.
Communism has gotten all tied up with government when really that is
just a small part of it needed to make it run smoothly. Communism has
no rules about freedoms, it is only a form of economy designed to
create equality, many of the other connotations have been added to it
over the years by dictorial governments.
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