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In my opinion, Marxism is not an authentic philosophy for communism. My idea of communism is totally opposite. My feeling is that if riches can be produced — and they can be produced, we have the technology…. If seventy-five percent of our energy and money is not wasted in wars, there will be such an affluence all over the world — everybody will have their needs fulfilled. And who wants to fight? To me, that will be communism: the whole society becoming wealthy, keeping its freedom, its freedom of expression, and its democracy.
In Russia they have lost everything and gained nothing.
I am a communist, but totally against Marxist communism. I would like the whole world to become a classless society, so rich and wealthy that there is no beggar, nobody dies of hunger, no unemployment. And this is the time we can manage it. If we are not managing it, it is because of the political divisions of the world and political leaders’ egos, power trips — because no war means no politics. If there is nobody poor, then there is no Mother Teresa, no Pope the Polack.
All the religious leaders want poverty in the world, and all the politicians want continuous war and poverty. Nobody is interested in making this world a paradise. All the religions in the past have been telling people, ”We will take you to paradise.”
I say to my people, ”I want paradise to come to you.”

Osho,

The Last Testament, Vol 4
Chapter #8