I completely agree. I love Marx in spite of his strong platform against religion. His book 'On religion' was a bit too strong against religion. Marx may have hated religion but really he should have saw Christianity as an ally for they shared the same goal. I wrote on how I believe Christians should be communist. Christianity is the religion of altruism while communism is the government of altruism. If Marx wasn't so passionate about religion being evil and opiate of the masses then maybe more Christians would be communist. That is one of the few parts of Marxism I don't agree with. There are quite a few communist verses in the bible though.

I think the middle ground between capitalism and communism is socialism but I don't think you were looking for that. I think you would really like pragmatism. They consider themselves the middle ground.

yeh, I wouldn't mind living like an early christian, so long as I didn't get nailed to a cross by the romans I mean sheesh thats gotta hurt, good thing about philosophy is you can work with principles and then apply them to political thought.

PS: doesn't jesus in the bible say that we're all Gods children? Sound very comunist, thats all