Talk:Energybending/@comment-150.108.238.41-20120422191134/@comment-150.108.238.41-20120422210049

There is a vast difference in the ideology that everyone is born equal and that everyone should live life equally.

Communist consist of the second group saying that everyone should live life in an equal manner, throughout there entire life.

Many groups such as liberals, progressives ect.. attack individuals who give their kids an advantage because they were born with more wealth however these groups are not nessarly communist.

All communist groups indeed hold onto this ideology of equality but not all groups that holds such concepts are communist. Now you are correct to say they have not made their beliefs on how people live later on availble however I would argue that this proves that the movement is not focusing on equality after birth but only equality during birth.

As for the idea of social oppresion the same thing is used by any group that claims they are for the poor. Progressives liberals and communist all claim they are there to prevent social oppression.

As for your last section it is a gross misunderstanding of what communism was. Countries like the sovietunion never actually considered themselves communist. Communism is the believe that the tension in between the workers and the land owners will eventually to be solved by a form of revolution. Soviet Union for example rushed into industrialization to actually create the conditions for this revolution. Even at the end of the Soviet Union the leaders never believed they created communism. Basically there has never been a communist society.

Basically I would argue that unless the equalist come out and say that they believe everyone should be equal in aspects they were not born with then we should not assume this is the message they are trying to deliver. I agree it can't be ruled out as of yet but claiming it is communism is saying that the equalist are a square when all we know about them is that they are a form of a rectangle.