the usual view is that the antichrist will be come kind of "collectivist,"
interfering with individual rights. But there is nothing said specific
about that in prophecy. And the requirement of having worshipped
him and received his mark before you can legally buy or sell, is not
communist except as a term of opprobrium.
All this does is put a requirement on participation in the economy,
it does not describe the economy. It could be communist, with the
buying and selling having to do with things allowed in the controlled
economy, or it could be laissez faire capitalism the only proviso is
that to be legal to participate one must have the mark of the beast.
