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For a start it might be useful to realise that no American politician advocates socialism in any recognisable way, let alone communism. Even the most left wing among them only advocate a mild from of social democracy, of the type we have had in Europe for decades.What is the difference between Socialism and Communism?
For the benefit of us ignorant capitalist supporters?
Socialism: You give according your ability and receive according to what you gave, communism you give according your ability and receive according your needs.What is the difference between Socialism and Communism?
For the benefit of us ignorant capitalist supporters?
For a start it might be useful to realise that no American politician advocates socialism in any recognisable way, let alone communism. Even the most left wing among them only advocate a mild from of social democracy, of the type we have had in Europe for decades.
Socialism: You give according your ability and receive according to what you gave, communism you give according you ability and receive according your needs.
For a start it might be useful to realise that no American politician advocates socialism in any recognisable way, let alone communism. Even the most left wing among them only advocate a mild from of social democracy, of the type we have had in Europe for decades.
What is the difference between Socialism and Communism?
As I said, only rewards of one's labor. Communism implies NEW communist consciousness that allows different kind of distribution when one is fully provided while working according one's ability. It is higher economic and moral basis of society.Socialism sounds like capitalism. Is there a difference then between capitalism and socialism?
This creates a huge amount of theoretical ambiguity over what is "socialism" and what is "capitalism" because of the level of disagreement amongst socialists, communists and anarchists themselves.
Indeed, socialism predates the "Communist Manifesto," an 1848 pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, by a few decades. There are many forms of non-Marxian socialism, such as Utopian socialism and anarchism (among many others).
Whilst this is all very accurate, historically speaking, academic parlance has a relatively simple means of distinguishing the plurality of 'socialisms' from the diverse 'marketeerisms':
Do you believe that private ownership should be abolished and the means of production made public property / social ownership?
If not, then your not a "socialist" but a social democrat / social marketeer at best imho. (Anarchists still believe in the abolition of private ownership).
That's a fair working definition for a western democracy.
It's a black hole. Socialism precedes inevitable Communism.What is the difference between Socialism and Communism?
For the benefit of us ignorant capitalist supporters?
We do not have that. We have privatized healthcare, higher education and a trivially small social welfare which is not a viable source of living income for those who need it. And getting smaller all the time.Ok, so as I see it, the American ideal for socialists is a capitalist economy with governmental regulation of healthcare, education and welfare. Pretty much we have that already don't we? Or what else do you feel needs to be done?
Ok, so as I see it, the American ideal for socialists is a capitalist economy with governmental regulation of healthcare, education and welfare. Pretty much we have that already don't we? Or what else do you feel needs to be done?
If I may ask, do you think that 'socialism' - however defined in its manifold applications - is compatible with a free market economy?
I would say no (as would most Western academics in the field of political science).
It would be difficult for me to consider any political ideology within the context of a market economy as "socialistic".
And I say that as someone sympathetic, on the basis of New Testament / Patristic principles, to socialisation as an ideal.
We do not have that. We have privatized healthcare, higher education and a trivially small social welfare which is not a viable source of living income for those who need it. And getting smaller all the time.
None of this covers religious forms of socialism which may be more relevant to your interests. But I hope it's suggesting there is a universe of possibilities in how society can be re-designed or re-invented without capitalism. As capitalism is taken to be self-evidently "natural" or "realistic" that's always been the part that intrigued me.
Healthcare is not universal, education is not universal, and public welfare is not universal. And worse then that, they are deliberately designed to be 'poverty traps' that punish anyone who dares to try and escape them by earning ANY amount of income.Ok, so as I see it, the American ideal for socialists is a capitalist economy with governmental regulation of healthcare, education and welfare. Pretty much we have that already don't we? Or what else do you feel needs to be done?