Question

What's the difference between socialism and communism

Answer 1

i think socialism is when u socialize with other people and communism is when u find a way to communicate with another person

Answer 2

socialism is when the governemnt pretty much owns all aspects of society while a communist government also owns all aspects of society, a communist governmnt also controls economic planning

Answer 3

socialism is a state that enacts a great deal of social welfare programs and some reistriution. A communist state is dogmatically marxist and may indeed have a dictator o oversee the dictatorship of the proleteraite, which is a component o marxist.

Answer 4

Private property. Under communism, there is no such thing. Everything but the clothes on your back and the food in your mouth (and sometimes not even that) is owned in common with others. You own essentially nothing. Under socialism, private property is still acknowledged and accepted, but there is also acceptance of the idea that a central government must take command of as much of the activity of private individuals as is necessary to guarantee justice, prosperity, and so forth to society as a whole.

What communism and socialism have in common is the belief that most men cannot govern themselves, and interact with their neighbors in an equitable and mutually profitable way. In effect, most people are stupid, cruel, and greedy, and furthermore cannot be led out of such behaviour by persuasion, but must be commanded (with force) by someone more intelligent and compassionate. Hence, both systems put significant restrictions on individual liberty, so that evil individuals can't use that liberty to oppress their fellow men. The systems differ on what kinds of liberty should be restricted.

The ideas are generally attractive, since almost everybody tends to look around him and say "gee, everybody else seems dumb/mean/selfish most of the time -- there ought to be someone in charge to prevent them from harming others, or even themselves."

The execution generally falls down on the problem of finding the more intelligent and compassionate wise men to do the governing. Unfortunately, there is no species of supermen, far more intelligent and compassionate than us, who have blue skin or live on Mars, so that we could very easily identify who should govern us. We are forced to pick our governors from amongst ourselves, and, very often, it turns out they are in fact no more intelligent and compassionate than we are ourselves.

It's sort of like a bunch of third-graders deciding the generic third-grader can't safely drive a car, but unfortunately also finding that (1) the car must, nevertheless, be driven, and (2) there are no older children or adults available to do the job. Their decision, while in some ways admirably insightful, would be sterile, because there is no way to give it practical effect.

Answer 5

it needs to be simpler than that because if this is for a studyguide or anything they have to write down it needs to be shoter