Certainly the Beatitudes and the Golden Rule are instructions on how to live, right?
The Stalinist/Trotskyist split is a split within Leninist-derived Communism, and it hasn't been the “greatest schism” in that community since at.least the rise of Maoism; I’m not sure there are any Trotskyists left (in the US, leading ex-Trotskyists went on to form a significant part of the core of the neoconservative movement.) AFAICT, Leninist-derived Communism is all Stalinist “socialism in one state” now.
The biggest split in Communism (at least, the Marx-derived subset) seems between developed-capitalism first Marxists and Leninist-derived vanguardists, though the former subset is also less tied to old orthodoxy and so has mixed a lot with non-Marxist socialism and is less easy to draw a firm bubble around than the Leninist vanguardists.
I did have my share of discussions with Trotskyists, especially in Europe, so I wouldn't say only stalinists are left nowadays.
See comment in sibling thread.
> Socialists aren’t a global society like Christians.
Surely you are joking?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_Forum
- http://www.internacionalsocialista.org/viewArticle.cfm?Artic...
May I also point out that the greatest schism in Communist groups is over Leninism/Trotskyism, and how their divergences come exactly from the fact that one of them believes that Communism can only be achieved when (what you call) Socialist practices are applied universally?
> set of instructions to run on (like the Bible).
I let the silly comment about "Jesus being a Socialist" slide, but if you see the Bible as a set of instructions I'd suggest you actually go learn more about Christian Theology and Philosophy before comparing all Christians to fundies.