Question

How are communism and socialism similar?

Answer 1

Similar, yes. Interchangeable, no.

Answer 2

Both communism and socialism governments regulate the community as a whole.

Answer 3

Communism and Socialism may not be completely similar, however, socialism was (is) a fundamental part of communism and is considered a key tool in how communism operates and most importantly how it was discovered when proletariat people would start a revolution in order to change a capitalistic form of rulership. The only thing that separates communism from socialism is that in a rulership. The only thing that separates communism from socialism is that in a distribute it out amongst the public, whereas in a socialist point of view the public owns the means of production so therefore they equally distribute everything amongst the public. However, Communism is still similar to socialism and this is evident when everything is distributed equally amongst public.
Communism is EXTREME SOCIALISM. Many people including Karl Marx were great teachers of socialism. Karl Marx then later developed Marxism which was: "race towards communism in stages...first stage was feudalism, then capitalism and socialism and the final stage communism". Marx was a devout socialist and he identified unfair working patterns in Britain and Germany. He found that serfs/peasants were working for wealthy industrialists in a capitalistic environment and were gaining no reward for their work. Marx then persuaded them and started a revolution which overthrew their masters. This was the beginning of SOCIALISM. From socialism developed communism. However communism was misused and the principles began to fail. Many communists became greedy and therefore people have terrible recollections of communism. Finally, socialism is a key aspect is communism however many communists in the past century have disregarded socialism and have taken a capitalistic approach instead were the peasants work for the state/government.