Socialism is when the workers control the means of production and communism is when the state controls the means of production. Whenever I hear this though, it's followed by how communism eliminates the state because the state induces class struggle and communism is an economic system where there are no classes.
Plz explain what's up here.
2006-10-18 17:08:10 · 3 answers · asked by Mikey C 5 in Social Science ➔ Economics
You're almost there, socialism is where the State owns and controls the means of production, and communism is the stage when the State disappears, because it's not needed anymore.
Class struggle is the main driving force of History according to Marxian theories, so it was present in all systems, and it's supposed to disappear in the communist society as classes are supposed to disappear.
2006-10-18 20:27:07 · answer #1 · answered by boulash 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Communisim is government by the people, literally so that the state is gone. The remainder of the state is an administrative system to permit functioning a skeleton if you will. Classess cease, in theory, to exist because all equally own everything.
Socialism does not seek to destroy the government but rather government is a proxy for the workers.
Ironically, capitalism has produced the only cases where the worker has actually owned the firm. A great example of this is SAIC which is solely worker owned.
2006-10-20 01:07:33 · answer #2 · answered by OPM 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's about stages. The class struggle precedes the true communist system.
2006-10-18 17:19:29 · answer #3 · answered by lottyjoy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋