communism
social and economic order based on belief in the desirability of common ownership of property and goods. Specifically Christian examples of this are found in the gospel command to the Rich Young Man to: "sell all he has and give to the poor", in the early church in Jerusalem as described in Acts 2:44-5 and 4:32-5, throughout the history of monasticism within the church with the vow of personal poverty, and in some radical Protestant groups such as Anabaptists and Diggers. Expressly rejecting any association with religion has been the communism known as Marxist-Leninism in Eastern Europe and Maoism in China. Attempts to combine the insights of Christianity and Marxism are most influential in Liberation Theology and also found in some versions of Christian Socialism.