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Communism is a system that takes from the Stone Age its technical level, from slavery its social relations, from feudalism its hierarchy, from capitalism its exploitation, and from socialism its name.
Popular joke in Poland, 1965
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This line was a takeoff on the famous quotation of Karl Marx: {624064}.
He was a strong opponent of communism (see {586209} and {586210}) but was also skeptical of unbridled capitalism.
Unlike most of his televangelist successors, Sheen was very ecumenical. He was clearly Catholic but had a very significant Protestant and Jewish Audience.
Since the end of WWII till the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Bulgarians were part of the Soviet Bloc and operated under communism that was supposedly based on Marxism. However it was not in many critical respects. But few modern Russian style Communists are familiar with or understand Marxism.
He was a strong foe of both Communism and Capitalism. He was one of the first critics to describe the de facto inequality of Communism.