I consider that socialism is the stage of society that follows capitalism. it is the time of the eradication of capitalist ways of creating society (way of production, etc.), behaving (wars to get resources, lands, markets) and the establishment of cooperative ways. I think that this period could be quite long, "ironing out the bugs," so to say, of what has been created by capitalist and feudalist society before it. Later, after a process of "settling," society will further transform. Communism is a later result.
KARL MARX had the view that history was inexorably trending to communism and that capitalism would improve to socialism and socialism would improve to communism.
I think similar to the way the felt about communism
Carl Marx believed that through a Communist revolution, the working class proletariat will release themselves from the bonds of capitalism and move towards communism, often using laissez-faire socialism as an intermediate stop on the way to full communism.
Socialism and communism are similar in the way they are supposed to work - all power being shared equally - and capitalism is similar to socialism in that everybody should ideally get out what they put in proportionally, but communism and capitalism are the exact opposites.
The answer is Karl Marx.
"Marxism" neither precedes nor succeeds communism, since they are two different concepts. Marxism is an ideology based on all of the theories of Karl Marx. Communism is an economic and political system. According to Karl Marx, socialism precedes and eventually evolves into communism. The idea that socialism will evolve into communism is only one of the aspects of the ideology known as Marxism. There are many more aspects to "Marxism" than just socialism and communism.
There are some socialist political parties in Ireland, and socialist politicians.
It was Lenin, not Marx, who talked about useful idiots. Marxism is the main theoretical foundation of Communism, a movement aimed at abolishing the wages system and establishing a classless society.
Answer 1:Religion.Answer 2:Hardly religion. The ideology of "Socialism/Communism"* has been used to justify more killings than any other belief system, or all the religious beliefs combined.Hitler's National Socialist Germany - 15 million to 20 million.Stalin's Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - 50 million to 100 million.Mao's Communist China - 100 million plus.Pol Pot's Commnist Cambodia - 3 million to 5 million.Of course, any one inclined to socialism/communism could point out that those were not examples of "real" socialism/communism, which in their view is benevolent and just. But at the same time then, we would have to be fair and mention that any religious person is going to point out that the killings in the name of Christianity or Islam did not represent "real" Christianity or Islam, which in their view is benevolent and just.The point is not then whether the given ideology was practiced in a "real" way, just whether there were people killed in its name.Socialism/Communism had more people killed in its name than any other ideology, including all religions combined.*Socialism and Communism are identical socioeconomic systems, the only difference being in how the goals are achieved politically. Socialism advocates a peaceful evolution into it, Communism a violent overthrow.
The only dangers are trying to be implemented to early. That has lead to authoritative governments like in the ussr. No country has ever achieved communism. The only safe way to do it is to do it worldwide and first developing sociailist systems and fully develope socialism in governments across the world. In communism itself there arent many dangers
That's the difference between socialism and democratic socialism. Ever since Obama's election, the term "socialism" has been thrown around and used much too loosely, resulting in any kind of socialist policy to be labeled as socialism. Democratic socialism (even though Bernie is more of a social democrat) is a centrist idea with a small allowance of leftist policy, such as socialized health care and education. In short, democratic socialism is primarily capitalist with little snippets of socialist policy, and is entirely different from socialism.
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