How many times have you heard the phrase "Jesus was or is a communist"?
What if that's true but not how you think?
Communism, communion, Communitarian, community, commonality etc.
We know Christianity makes good use of the word communion—a sacrament.
We know community is important and Communitarianism was used as a word to avoid using communism by emphasizing common unity over commonality.
But communism etymologically speaking means commonality.
It is one of the many abused words that took on a profane meaning because of sociopolitical developments.
But we know the real problem is Phthonoegalism.
Communism is a useful word outside of Marxist political thought and as always, evil movements never label themselves pejoratively even if pejorative words are more accurate descriptions of who they are and what they believe in.
Remember "Christian Nationalism"? I created the neologism christopretensism for them, and now I created phthonoegalism for "communists" and I also created lucrumism for describing "capitalists".
Add this to the list of correcting historical linguistic errors.
Now let me define what communism means: Communism is a word denoting the quality of commonality.
Try using it in a sentence? So this is what I call a linguistic annexation or reclamation. We are taking a word that can be made sense from in other uses and filling the void with a new word.
I wouldn't call anyone a communist after reading this post because it no longer means what it used to mean.
It is now a more abstract philosophical word that is as relevant as the context around it makes it.
It will be joining its family of non pejorative words like community, communion, Communitarian etc.
Enjoy. As a sociopolitical philosopher, I look forward to further study of linguistics because language is important.