POLL: As an Atheist, What Do You View as Being the Most Rational Political Outlook?

[Engel]

As we have seen in history pure and even today pure communism when practices in reality does not preserve rights because the government grows corrupt and greedy. It may provide free "services" to all but that takes away peoples freedoms.

I myself am a libertarian. Government should only be large enough to protect basic rights and liberties. It should provide a defense and give some grants out when needed.

Because "pure communism" has never been achieved. As stated in the Communist Manifesto, the revolutionary state is supposed to facilitate the revolution, then dissolve into a classless, stateless society. Based on this definition, for most of its history the USSR or any other example you want to use was a lot closer to being a fascist state, in which the end goal is to put power in to the hands of a few, elite leaders. In true communism the end goal is to put power into the hands of as many people as possible.