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Is communism based on Utilitarianism? I am taking a "formal" undergrad philosophy class (Philosophy of Ethics), and the professor told me that he's never heard of utilitarianism being linked to communism before. This was after I made a statement linking the two. From what I can understand about the two so far, it seems that Kant values the individual at the expense of the group while utilitarianism values the group at the expense of the individual. Is that not individualist anarchism and communism respectively? If communism is different than utilitarianism then the only thing I can think of is that I'm bringing my bias of what the outcomes of communism are instead of the stated intentions of communism - somehow making my statement false. So, in short, am I wrong in my argument that communism stems from utilitarian ethics? Thank you for time, thoughts, and feedback.
