What's the difference between Socialism and Communsim?

Answer 1

They are similar.....they are what the liberals want our country to turn into.

Answer 2

There's a pretty big difference but they don't want you to know that. The Nazi Germany govt was far from the "Socialist" they said they were-they were fascist. Hugo Chavez's Venzuela isn't Socialist-it's Communist, like Cuba. Look at Chile for a moderate Socialist government. A perfect example of a government that is highly pro-capitalist/free trade yet believes in providing some programs for it's people-pensions, healthcare, etc.

“Social Democart” argue that socialism is something that will come about in the distant future or is something akin to what exists in Sweden or Norway today. These groups have no basic criticism of the capitalist system. They advocate various reforms as the solution to the problems confronting working people today. They are the modern-day representatives of what Karl
Marx and Frederick Engels described as conservative or bourgeois socialism

There are many levels and mixes of parties in many different countries. Socialism does often exist without falling to Communism as they would have you believe.

Answer 3

Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. This may involve the selective nationalisation of key industries within the framework of mixed economies (social democracy), total cooperative or state ownership of industry, but with decisions about production and exchange made by market forces rather than central planners (market socialism), decentralized collective ownership in the form of cooperatives or workers' councils (Anarcho-syndicalism) or state ownership of industry with decisions about what is produced and sold made by central planners. Many modern economies are based on social democratic models involving the private ownership of most indutries but with selective nationalisation of key industries such as railways, the postal system, sanitation, water, healthcare etc

Communism is a branch of socialism that seeks to create a classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownership of the means of production. All industry is state owned and decisions about what is produced and sold made by central planners, normally based on political rather than economic aims. According to Communist doctrine, only workers (the prolitariat) have a place in society and everyone else must be eliminated or "re-educated" - this includes the rich, the middle classes, artists, shopkeepers, artisans and dissidents. However according to Marxist theory, the workers do not actually make the desions - power is given into the hands of "trustees" who make decisions on their behalf (i.e. the central planners). This results in a dictatorship of the bureaucrat.

The problem is that in the eyes of many, especially in the US, the concepts of socialism and communism have become intertwined, when in fact this isn't the case. Socialism contains a broad spectrum of economic and political theories that aim to create a socio-economic model in which wealth, property and opportunity are provided to everyone, not concentrated in the hands of the few. Communism is just an extreme (and not very good) theory within that very wide umbrella.

Answer 4

Well, communism it a form of socialism. Both are systems where the people are the power. It sounds like a good idea on paper, where everyone isn't poor,but it doesn't really work. You have to have a certain ratio of poor to rich to make the commerce flow. It's economics.

Answer 5

Some government ownership of utilities, resources and businesses v. government ownership and control of all utilities, resources and businesses.

Answer 6

Google "Communism vs. Socialism"...how lazy are you?