Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1348

1348. Since "communism" is a mental attitude that regards an absolute, collective solidarity or sense of community as the only justice in the world, and such a communal attitude of thought cannot possibly be complete without a correspondingly absolute neighbourly love, true "communism" thus cannot possibly be represented by murder, violence, dictatorship or "might instead of right". Any "communist" organisation is thus false, or at least unfinished in relation to true "communism", as long as it deprives people of their intellectual, idealistic way of thinking and acting. In this mental sphere it thus lacks the complete "spirit of community", in whose name it pleads justification or reason for its existence. "Communism" is not a "regimentation" of all beings, a "regimentation" maintained by command or dictatorship. How could such a mental and physical straitjacket be more pleasant or encourage life more than the straitjacket of "capitalism"? A "communism" of this kind is of course nothing more than another way of misusing power, another way of placing "might instead of right" than that practised by "capitalism". To lead people into such a "communism" is of course merely to lead them out of the frying pan into the fire. One must therefore be on one's guard, if one is one of those people who call themselves "communists" today, and see to it that one really deserves this holy name, and that one does not participate in defiling this divine principle – which comprises sublime neighbourly love, total, collective brotherhood, the absolute liberating realisation of fellow-feeling, the "comforter, the holy ghost", which was promised by the world redeemer as a basis for "peace" or the" kingdom of heaven" that at his time was as yet "not of this world" – the real name of which is "communism", as expressed by the "Christmas star".