I am fully aware of the fact that Marx proposed a secular world and I am fully for a secular society, BUT with room for the individual to be as religious as they want. Also note, Marx was one of many people at his time that dreamed up "ideal" societies. Many people has been inspired by his work and has tried to implement his ideas, fully or in parts. Social Democracy for instance is such a system that has adopted parts of Communism but changes what was believed to not work well in the reality. This is why I say that it is possible for a person to be both a socialist AND a Christian. Social Democracy also accept the existence of corporations and has instead concentrated their work on creating strong trade unions that works on making sure that the workers get a reasonable compensation for their efforts. My point is that what Marx created has has grown to a wide array of ideas on the political left wing, not all of this is Communism and even the COmmunist parties that exist may have different ideas. Basically Marx created the political left wing but it is huge....

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