What is the difference between communism and socialism? There is no major difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same eventual end. Communism sets forth enslavement of the population by means of force, socialism -- by vote. It is like the difference between murder and suicide. One is death by force, one is death voluntarily.
Socialism may be established by force, as in the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The extent of socialism may be complete, as in the former USSR, or partial, as experienced in the United States of America. The basic principle, in all cases, is the same.
The purported goals of socialism and communism are the same: the elimination of private poverty and the obtainment of general (equal) prosperity. However, instead of prosperity, socialism and communism have brought eventual economic stagnation and/or collapse to every country that have tried them. The amount of socialization has been the degree of devastation.
There is no major contrast between the principles, policies and results of socialism and communism, and those of any prior tyranny. Socialism is simply a system of absolutism without a fixed head, open to seizure of power by all comers, by any ruthless opportunist, demagogue or thug that has the charisma and ability of personal persuasion to hoodwink the population. Socialism is communism in the making.
Many are fooled about the nature and altruistic ambitions of socialism. Keep in mind that there are no human rights without property rights. If the producer of material goods, services, and innovations does not own the result of his or her efforts, then they do not own their own lives. Denying property rights, which both socialism and communism do, turns people into property that is essentially owned by the government.
Both communism and socialism believe in the doctrine that mankind has no right to exist for their own sake, that a person's life and work do not belong to them, but belong to the vague "society," and that the only rationale for their existence is their service to the "collective good".
The collective or "common good" is an undefined and undefinable concept: there is no such entity as "the public". There is only a number of individual human beings. The notion of "the common good" has acted as the justification of all tyrannies in history. The degree of society's enslavement to the government or freedom corresponded to the degree to which that slogan was invoked or ignored.
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Socialism may be established by force, as in the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The extent of socialism may be complete, as in the former USSR, or partial, as experienced in the United States of America. The basic principle, in all cases, is the same.
The purported goals of socialism and communism are the same: the elimination of private poverty and the obtainment of general (equal) prosperity. However, instead of prosperity, socialism and communism have brought eventual economic stagnation and/or collapse to every country that have tried them. The amount of socialization has been the degree of devastation.
There is no major contrast between the principles, policies and results of socialism and communism, and those of any prior tyranny. Socialism is simply a system of absolutism without a fixed head, open to seizure of power by all comers, by any ruthless opportunist, demagogue or thug that has the charisma and ability of personal persuasion to hoodwink the population. Socialism is communism in the making.
Many are fooled about the nature and altruistic ambitions of socialism. Keep in mind that there are no human rights without property rights. If the producer of material goods, services, and innovations does not own the result of his or her efforts, then they do not own their own lives. Denying property rights, which both socialism and communism do, turns people into property that is essentially owned by the government.
Both communism and socialism believe in the doctrine that mankind has no right to exist for their own sake, that a person's life and work do not belong to them, but belong to the vague "society," and that the only rationale for their existence is their service to the "collective good".
The collective or "common good" is an undefined and undefinable concept: there is no such entity as "the public". There is only a number of individual human beings. The notion of "the common good" has acted as the justification of all tyrannies in history. The degree of society's enslavement to the government or freedom corresponded to the degree to which that slogan was invoked or ignored.
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