You are quite mistaken. You are simply repeating the slogans of the far right, which emphasizes the need for private property.
1. No, my philosophy here comes from an adult lifetime of study and reflection on this subject.
2. I have no idea what the "far right" is. Perhaps you do, but I suspect its really nothing more than a repetition of the slogans of the far left.
"Communism is not the same thing as Soviet or Chinese or Cuban Communism or Lenin Communism."
Correct. Soviet, Chinese, or Cuban communism is socialism, and socialism is what Marx and his disciples taught and propounded all their lives. Communism and socialism have always been used interchangeably within the Left and the communist world to mean essentially the same thing in the Communist Manifesto sense: the dictatorship of the proletariat - a totalitarian police state and party operating in the interests of and embodying the aspirations, feelings, hopes and dreams of the proletarians and the poor.
The other meaning of communism, which is the future anarchic utopia Marx believed would be created as socialism faded into a fully mature communist society, has no clear relevance due to the fact that it was and remains nothing more than a pure utopian fantasy that could never exist or function as a social and economic system and in relation to which Marx never worked out a coherent theoretical framework.
Soviet Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicaragua in the eighties, and the Eastern European nations within the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War are all examples of the inevitable effects of taking the crackpot theories of Karl Marx seriously and actually attempting to govern a society based upon them. Those nations, and the 140,000,000 (and climbing) human beings who died for the revolution in the 20th century were not glitches or mistakes in the socialist crucible of human redemption but
fundamental features of that system, grounded in the core assumptions and premises of socialist theory.
The gulags, the dungeons, the mass executions, the midnight knocks at the door, the mass poverty, the economic rape of entire nations and continents, and the brutal repression of virtually all fundamental individual liberties, freedoms, and unalienable rights inhering in human beings qua human beings are the
inherent, necessary, and inevitable consequences of driving socialist theory to actual policy. Each and every time it has been attempted, the consequences have been the same.
We understand why from the gospel: wickedness cannot produce happiness. Falsehood cannot generate truth. False principles cannot bring forth anything but failure.
"Communism is simply the absence of private ownership coupled with a pure democracy."
Yes, the worst possible form of human government and human social interaction: grinding poverty governed by mob rule in a world in which the law can change every day. Isn't it delightful?
The proletariat then assigns a stewardship
I.e., the state.
"(like, to be a house painter or a musician) to each participant, but in a true communistic society the participant has the freedom to choose his stewardship so long as the proletariat agrees that it is productive. But, to some degree, a participant will be required to bear the burdens of society, such as police protection, road improvement and the like."
This exercise in pure, head-in-the-clouds utopian navel gazing is quite instructive as to what this kind of thinking can do to the human mind once its fibrous roots wrap themselves tightly enough around the human soul. There is no such thing as "true communism," Yahoo, because "true communism" is an ideological fantasy that exists only in the world of pure utopian theoretical abstraction (which is why modern leftists still romantically wedded to socialist theory can talk of communism "never having been tried") and a fantasy that has, at least, achieved one thing, and that is a world-historical record as to the digging of graves and the destroying of economies (and the starting of wars, its other major legacy).
"I must modify my statement about 4th Nephi and Acts communism; it was communism as governed by a theocracy. Instead of the proletariat making decisions, it would be the priesthood. That is the Lord's way."
Nothing in the scriptures or the teachings of the prophets since Joseph mentions anything about the Church determining for anyone what their trade, profession, or entrepreneurial calling shall be.
Utterly astounding.