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Pick out a number of men in Paris, London, Berlin, or any other city, associated with all the evils and corruptions of those cities, and organize them into a community. 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About the time we left Nauvoo to come to this land, Mr. Cabet, with a company of his men, came there. This is a species of communism; they are called \"Communists,\" believing, with Mr. Owen, in a community of goods. They published a newspaper in Nauvoo, and one or more in France. I baptized one of their editors while in Paris on my mission—a man who is now in this valley, by the name of Bertrand.", "matched_pattern": "communism"}, {"year": 1909, "speaker": "B.H. Roberts", "role": "seventy", "source": "apostle_book", "title": "New Witnesses for God Vol 1", "talk_id": "book:new-witnesses-for-god-vol-1", "text": "Others have gone even further than this, and proposed not only to make the individual a creature of the State, in relation to the matter of labor and wages, but to control him in all the relations of life, even invading the domestic re- lations to the extent of abolishing the marriage institution and all domestic government founded on paternal authority. These last two suggestions, with various amplifications, are classed as socialism and communism respectively. The former has many advocates in nearly all civilized countries, especially in Germany and France, where they wield a polit-", "matched_pattern": "communism"}, {"year": 1979, "speaker": "Ezra Taft Benson", "role": "apostle", "source": "cojc", "title": "A Witness and a Warning", "talk_id": "cojc:1979-10-a-witness-and-a-warning", "text": "More recently, President Marion G. Romney, in the First Presidency Message in the September 1979 Ensign, wrote: “Communism is Satan’s counterfeit for the gospel plan, and … it is an avowed enemy of the God of the land. Communism is the greatest anti-Christ power in the world today and therefore the greatest menace not only to our peace but to our preservation as a free people. By the extent to which we tolerate it, accommodate ourselves to it, permit ourselves to be encircled by its tentacles and drawn to it, to that extent we forfeit the protection of the God of this land” (p. 5).", "matched_pattern": "communism"}, {"year": 1979, "speaker": "Ezra Taft Benson", "role": "apostle", "source": "cojc", "title": "A Witness and a Warning", "talk_id": "cojc:1979-10-a-witness-and-a-warning", "text": "It is well to ask, what system established secret works of darkness to overthrow nations by violent revolution? Who blasphemously proclaimed the atheistic doctrine that God made us not? Satan works through human agents. We need only look to some of the ignoble characters in human history who were contemporary to the restoration of the gospel to discover fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy. 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