Amanda Seyfried thinks socialism - an ideology responsible for killing over 100 million people globally last century - is a gorgeous idea. She couldn’t be more wrong.

Seyfried, who is promoting her new film “The Testament of Ann Lee” on the founder of the Shaker Movement, told Variety her unique definition of socialism.

“Thank God we’re talking about Ann Lee so much, because there’s a direct relationship to what she created and what we’re lacking,” Seyfried told Variety. “How about we all don’t have any kind of agendas? How about our agenda is take care of each other? Socialism is a gorgeous idea, and I know it doesn’t work perfectly, or that people understand what the word actually means. For me, it’s taking care of each other. If I have more money, I can spend more money on other people.”

The Shaker Movement, strangely enough, received praise from Frederic Engels, pal of Karl Marx, in 1884. He wrote positively of New Lebanon, New York, which he deemed a communist colony: 

Another colony of Shakers, New Lebanon in the State of New York, was visited by a second English traveller, by the name of Pitkeithly, in the year 1842. Mr. Pitkeithly most thoroughly inspected the whole town, which numbers some eight hundred inhabitants and owns between seven and eight thousand acres of land; he examined its workshops and factories, its tanneries, sawmills and so on, and declares the........

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