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You are confusing Karl Marx's pure communism with the much-abused version of communism exercised by Stalin, Mao, etc.
True communism is in fact, very close to the ideology of true Christianity in that every person would ideally receive food and shelter, and there wouldn't be class, racism, or oppression.
True Communism is very much unlike true christianity. The Catholic church opposes Communism in its official teaching.
2425 The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with "communism" or "socialism." She has likewise refused to accept, in the practice of "capitalism," individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor.207 Regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social bonds; regulating it solely by the law of the marketplace fails social justice, for "there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market."208 Reasonable regulation of the marketplace and economic initiatives, in keeping with a just hierarchy of values and a view to the common good, is to be commended."
Catechism of the Catholic Church - The seventh commandment