Socialism

The US does not "hate" socialism, although a significant portion of the population is opposed to socialism due to Cold War-era propaganda, misinformation and lack of understanding.

The ideology of the former Soviet Union and its allies, Marxism-Leninism, has given socialism a negative reputation because it was the adversary of the United States during the Cold War and maintained an authoritarian form of government.

Socialism is an economic system based on co-operative or social ownership of the means of production, self-management or democratic decision-making in economic enterprises, and in its most developed form, the replacement of money with a direct measure of economic value for economic calculation. However, most Americans do not associate socialism with its true definition, and conflate it with one or more of the following:

1) The political system of authoritarianism, where the government wields excessive power over society and can curtail individual freedoms and rights at will.

2) State-ownership of companies, which is not socialistic per se, and is actually a feature or has been a feature of many capitalist economies.

3) Social welfare programs and policies, which have nothing to do with socialism as an alternative to capitalism and were actually a way to safeguard capitalism against the threat of socialist revolution by detracting workers from developing support for socialism. In Western Europe, many social democratic or formerly socialist parties have implemented social welfare policies, hence why it is associated with socialism to many Americans.

4) Political revolution and Anti-Americanism associated with the theories of Leninism and marxism-Leninism, which subscribe to the theory of Imperialism and opposed American interests because the United States is, according to this theory, the leading Imperialist nation.

Bismarck introduced anti socialist laws in 1878, which deprived socialist organizations of the right of assembly and publication.

that society at large should control industry and wealth... novanet :)

It is a quotation by William Cooper, he was saying that socialism- an economic system absorbs or takes in, and so people, such as himself.

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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.

You are referring to country where the welfare of the people in a country is placed above the right to accumulate exes wealth. there are many democratic country's where the people claim a share in what is produce in that country regardless of who created the wealth.

Political theories are broadly classified into two categories - classical and modern. The classical theories are normative in character while the modern theories are empirical. One may further subdivide the modern theories into modern and contemporary.

‘Profits’ is the wrong term. The vast majority of people would benefit from a Socialist world, with no rulers or classes or poverty or war.

'The Communist Manifesto'

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Socialism refers to various theories of economic organization advocating public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with an egalitarian method of compensation.

Nationalism is an ideology, a sentiment, or a social movement that focuses on the nation as the primary and most important aspect of social, economic and political existence.

Political movements can be one or the other, or both.

Socialist oppose goverment interference with the economy.

national socialism is to combine our world and to forget all cast differences. to help and love others. todays science and technologies are the result of national socialism.

Karl Marx.

Well normally if your attempting to get to communism through socialism then you would normally require a revolution unless you'r a trotsky version, if a revolution succeeds from feudal society the government takes control of the market and normally with feudalism you have slaves which would be released and all inequality would stop existing because the government would implement laws to stop racism, sexism, etc...

No, socialism is an economic system with specific economic models.

It is not as much a political ideal as it is an economic system intended to lead to certain social outcomes.

the soviets

It may be defined as the instinct humans have for co-operation, caring for each other, collective responsibily, etc. It's a survival mechanism that is ancient and seen throughout the animal kingdom , especially among higher mammals.

Socialism is a classless stateless society based on production for use. Anarchism is about abolishing government. Some anarchists (such as Kropotkin) also wanted a Socialist society, but many others do not.

Theocratic socialism is a an economic system where the fundemental authoritative figures are the Gods. This system was used during the ancient mesopotamian period in the ancient cities of Uruk (or Warka) and to some extent duing the neo mesopotamian period in the city of Ur.

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Only Germany ever had a national socialist party that was radical and in control. Some neo-Nazi parties exist in other countries now, protesting angrily and attempting to dictate the government. In the US, Nazism played a role during the time of Martin Luther King, in the south, back in the 60s'.

Both believed that workers were exploited..