Blues Man
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So what.I didn't blame anyone for anything. I was merely relaying what he said about communism being naturalized humanism. A statement I believe he was correct in stating. But to say his work wasn't responsible for implementing Socialism or Communism is a bit misleading. He certainly was an advocate of such.
Human Requirements and Division of Labour, Marx, 1844
The idea of communism was actually practiced in humans when they lived as hunter gatherers and it worked out pretty well in that respect.
The problem is it can't be scaled up past a certain population size. You seem to be erroneously thinking that ALL communism is reflected by the Soviet and Chinese governmental systems and their poor records on human rights.
And secular humanism has little to do with such disregard for human rights.
In fact societies based in secular humanism are actually doing better than societies based in religious dogma.
All you have to do is look at Iran to see that