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Post by Cloud on Dec 30, 2003 23:13:03 GMT -5
Can someone explain the difference between communism and socialism?  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2003 0:20:07 GMT -5
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Post by Cloud on Dec 31, 2003 10:28:03 GMT -5
I don,t understand this stuff |
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Post by Andrei_X on Dec 31, 2003 11:05:35 GMT -5
Socialism is a form of class rule in which the people rule over the old and newly arising oppressors. As an economic system, socialism is social production in which public ownership replaces private ownership and people's needs replace profit/greed as the purpose of production. It is also the historical transition period between capitalism and communism.
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Post by Cloud on Dec 31, 2003 11:14:27 GMT -5
I get the last part , but
what is an economic system?
what is social production?
and, what is public ownership?
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Post by Andrei_X on Dec 31, 2003 11:31:58 GMT -5
An economic system is the way that business, industry, and production of things are run in a society. In a socialist society, we run our businesses, factories, etc. as THE PEOPLE instead of the corporations doing it (it is a little more complex than that, but that is a beginner's understanding).
Social production means people coming together to make things needed to keep society going, be it growing food, making steel, building schools and homes, making toys, making plastic, etc. etc.
Public ownership means the masses own the means of production (the factories and the tools that allow us to grow food, make steel, build homes, etc.) instead of corporations. In Socialism, the masses do this through the People's Government and the Communist Party. Once Communism sets in, the Communist Party and People's Government dissolve and the people own things DIRECTLY instead.
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Post by Cloud on Dec 31, 2003 11:35:06 GMT -5
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Post by Andrei_X on Dec 31, 2003 11:40:28 GMT -5
Communism the final goal of the world proletarian revolution. A society without classes and class distinctions, without any kind of oppression and inequality. A society in which the state and other repressive political institutions have been abolished. A society guided by the principle of “from each according to their abilities; to each according to their needs.” Communism can only exist on a world level. It is a global community of freely cooperating human beings.
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Post by heed the world on Dec 31, 2003 12:04:11 GMT -5
socialism is the first stage of communism. It is the first liberated society humanity has known.
At the same time, socialism is the transitoinal society between capitalism and classless communist society -- so it is marked by both, and by the difficult struggle to move from one to the other.
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Post by Cloud on Dec 31, 2003 12:35:01 GMT -5
what would a liberated soceity be like?
would everybody be equel?
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Post by Red Flag Faction on Jan 8, 2004 15:34:02 GMT -5
No human being can be equal to another. Saying everybody is equal is just utopia.
Human beings are different in their sex, color, race,...
Communism means equal in rights, duties, social role and position no matter what sex, color, race,...
We cannot say how a communist society will be since we're not yet there but we can suppose some things:
It will be classless and free.
Guided by the principle of "from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs"
The community will give to each member anything he/she needs: shelter, food, medicine, education,...
All the work done in group (community), so all the dirty jobs will no more be dirty as they are in capitalism.
Machines will do most of these dirty jobs so they will be almost entirely eliminated. With these eliminated, people will do productive jobs, making great amounts of products so people can rest for a long time.
The government will be direct democracy.
No more military forces to attack other people and no more billions spent on defense and spying equipment.
Police forces educating people rather then punishing them.
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Post by Comrade Joseph on Jan 14, 2004 7:17:34 GMT -5
Socialism (also known as the dictatorship of the proletariat) is where the proletariat is organized as the ruling class, and the bourgeois class is suppressed.
Communism is the classless society that comes into existence after class differences have been abolished during the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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