From Wikipedia:
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
So, with Index Funds you have common ownership of the means of production. Anybody can buy into Index Funds so there is no Social Class. The money is gone after you buy the Index funds so you have the absence of money.
Do you see the similarities?
Index Funds and their returns can over a long span of time are supposed to have the possibility of leading you to Financial freedom. Communism promised a lot of good things to people too. If something sounds to good to be true, it often is to good to be true.
When I was a kid I used to read comic books. The Communists were always the bad guys. OK - Sometimes they were Nazis that had somehow survived World War II and didn’t seem to age much. They taught us in school that the Communist countries were the enemies. They wanted to take away your freedoms, your house, and even any chickens you may have in the yard. Bad people.
There used to be a guy called Joe Stalin. He was a bad man that was a communist dictator. He was called old bushy. He had a big mustache. I don’t think he owned index funds.
Am I on the track of something?