[castle-bravo]

That's a nice bit rhetorical judo. Disarming and ensuring that the bottom level of Maslow's hierarchy is met -> communism! The originator of that quote was anything but a communist.

I think you ought to think a little harder about what defense and military spending really is: welfare for engineers and those desperate or foolish enough to test their inventions. It's "from each ... to each ..." but under a different system of values.

[MR4D]

So, there are a couple possible originators of that quote... 1 - Marx, who, obviously, was a Communist, in which case your statement is wrong 2 - Joseph Smith, who founded a classless commune. I think that invalidates your comment as well.

Is there someone else who you are thinking of as an originator who was "anything but a communist" as you put it? I'm more than willing to listen if there is.