Genral comments about socialism/communism/ marxism welcome. I just like learning and exploring political ideas even though a republic is the way to go...
2007-01-16 13:41:32 · 4 answers · asked by ? 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Marxism identifies the race toward communism being in stages. 1)feudalism 2)capitalism 3)socialism 4)communism... How can you say they are not related? How can you say meanings have no meanings and there is no way to track it today? Your being a bit misleading...
2007-01-16 14:08:30 · update #1
Because they study it in concept, without following it to its natural conclusion. In theory, socialism is a perfectly suitable form of government. Although it creates disincentives, everyone is guaranteed an equal share of the burdens and rewards of the society.
In truth, however, there will always have to be people at the top to run it, and people being what they are will horde, manipulate, and take advantage of their positions. It might work for robots, but people can never sustain a true socialist society without someone getting shafted.
2007-01-16 13:50:04 · answer #1 · answered by normobrian 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not worth answering since you have already put socialism/communism/Marxism under the same umbrella without considering the obvious differences. Even a republic government represents a society and you can not have a strong republic without implementing some forms of socialism.
2007-01-16 13:50:05 · answer #2 · answered by az grande 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
a republic or democracy is a form of government, like monarchy or fascist state
socialism and capitalism are types of economic styles...
there are countries in Europe right now that are social democracies (Sweden for example)... so they use both socialism and democracy (which is really of course a republic)
you're talking about apples and oranges...
it just so happens that all of the countries we think of as being "communist" were really dictatorships, or at least fascist states, for the most part (USSR, China, N. Korea, ect.)... and fascist states never work out very well... no matter if they are capitalist or socialist... and they gave socialism a bad name in the 1900s...
2007-01-16 13:55:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Please... they toss around liberal, Conservative and Marxist and communist like confetti, and with just as much meaning. They just echo whatever Rush said that day and drool. Why study something when common usage has changed its meaning past the point of any recognition. I think, in fact that we should just get new meaningless meanings put in the dictionary so we could all at least be on the same page.
2007-01-16 13:49:32 · answer #4 · answered by justa 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋