Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together?

[cratehorus]

It isn't the same thing, for a couple of reasons:

1) In capitalism, only the wealthy can afford to sit on their ass; in communism, everyone can, since the government will pay to keep them alive.

2) The children of the wealthy cannot live like that forever; nobody can. If you do not have an income, and are living off a large sum of money, you will eventually run out of money, especially if you have kids, and they have kids, etc, and you all live off the same supply of money. In communism, one could theoretically live off the state and have their children and grandchildren live off the state for as long as the state is around.

Warren Buffet has over $60 billion, his children, never have to work, a single day, in their life.

Yet, most of them do, so why do they?

Yes, there can. A nation is simply a large group of people all inhabiting the same area. A communist nation would be a large group of people, all inhabiting the same area, and all living in a communist society. I'd agree that a "communist state" (though some exist) isn't a true form of communism, but to say that there can be no communist nation is not true. A "nation" is not a political term; it's more of a human-geographic term.

In any case, how do you think you can ever convince me of communism if you admit that it can never exist? Seems a bit pointless to me.

If you want an example of a country with a successful worker's progressive movement, then look no further than your own.

There can NEVER be a "communist nation" because that phrase is an oxymoron

The government does the trading, thus the government does have total control over its economy.

If Saudi Arabia and all the oil producing OPEC nations, decide to have an oil embargo against the US, what would our nation look like?

....... who did you learn about communism from Margaret Thatcher?