what is the difference between a socialist and a communist?

Question

From everything that I have read, a scocialist IS a communist. Does this mean that our country (USA) is slowly, but surely becoming a comunist scociety?

Answer 1

No, socialism involves the government providing a lot of services such as health care, limiting profits (by taking a very large amount in the form of taxes) and redistributing them to people who they believe need the money more than the people who earned it.

In communism, the government owns everything (all property belongs to the community).

You are on the right track in your thinking though, since both systems stifle innovation (remove the profit and remove incentive to work hard or invest in capital). Socialism and communism both make people more dependent on government. So yes, it seems we are heading in that direction (especially if Hillary or B.O. get elected).

Answer 2

A socialist is someone who supports social changes to reduce or remove economic inequalities. Not all socialists will support the same changes or will oppose the same inequalities. Most socialists argue that the ruling classes and their allies exploit the working classes and their allies.

A communist is someone who supports common access to or common ownership of land, capital, and sometimes other goods. But communism includes two or three forms of socialism (such as Marxism and libertarian communism) with deep differences with each other.

In practice, socialism divides into two main camps, with communists and non-communists in each camp:

State socialism (including most forms of Marxism, social democracy, democratic socialism, Fabian socialism, Bellamy's model, Lasalle's model, etc.)

Libertarian socialism (including mutualism or individualist anarchism in the older sense, collectivist anarchism, anarchocommunism or libertarian communism, anarchosyndicalism, revolutionary unionism or industrial unionism in the Wobbly sense, council communism, autonomous Marxism, etc.)

P.S. And there are Christian communists (small-c), some of whom are inspired by parts of the book of Acts.

Answer 3

Get rich quick schemes in the capitalist business world, (buyouts, IPOs, conglomerates, acquisitions, mergers, and the stock market), do not actually work. Remaining solvent does not actually exist within false economics capitalism.

Profit existing in the capitalist business world, or millionaires existing within capitalism, is pathological deception committed by the 21 organizations spying on the population with plain clothes agents, (with covert fake names and fake backgrounds).

Actual economics is the persons paying the monthly business loan payments of companies voting at work in order to control the property they are paying for.

Capitalism is the psychology of imaginary parents, false economics, and the criminal deception of employees that are paying the bills (including the stocks and bonds, or shares) of companies.

Anti-democracy republicanism is the psychology of imaginary parents, and false government.

Answer 4

Socialism is a way of distributing services, that is arguably more efficient than the every man for himself model. That is why we use it for things like garbage collection, public education, fire protection, police, public libraries, social security etc. But since it does not rely upon greed as a motivating force, it is arguably not as powerful a motivator to creating wealth as capitalism. So that is why there is still a place for private industry even in a society with a lot of socialized services (as every modern society has).

Communism operates the way your family does: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. It hasn't been put into practice successfully because we don't all love each other enough to make it work.

Answer 5

One thing is sure, in communism, people dont believe in God or Higher Being(s)

Answer 6

No real differnce - Red to the core, both of them.