Socialism

Socialism is a classless stateless society based on production for use and democratic control. No rulers, not money, no billionaires, no poverty, no armies, no borders. Just people working together for the common good.

A democracy involves characteristics such as power and civic responsibility being exercised through elected officials. Socialism involves government ownership of productive resources, and a republic implies that an elected official is referred to as the head of state.

Establishing model Communities

1: common ownership of major means of production

2:limited role of market

3:command economy

4:classless society

5:lack of incentive

Capitalism means where power is concentrated in private hands, depriving the common people equal distribution of wealth. Where rich becomes richer, and the poor survives by staying as the lowest strata of society. The Free Market concept is the brain child of capitalism and common people of various countries including U.S.A. are feeling the pinch,with unemployment,poverty continue to grip the lives of common people.

Bicultural socialization is to be socialized and functioning in two distinct cultures. Example: A child of first generation immigrants understands and functions fully in his/her ethnic culture at home, but is also able to fully function in and understands the culture of his school and greater community.

Scientific socialism is based on an analysis of existing material (economic and technological) conditions of society and of their development, and uses this analysis to predict probable future outcomes in terms of where society is moving toward. Socialism was seen as a logical outcome of capitalist development and capitalist crises in Marxist theory.

In contrast, Utopian socialists start from an ideal vision of society, which is based on subjective value-judgements, and then try to move society in that direction. Marx would argue that the idea of "utopianism" is naive, because one person's utopia might be another person's dystopia and vice versa.

Practical socialists, such as social democratic reformers, do not base their arguments on any comprehensive theory. They are based on populism and attempting to help as many people through immediate, existing means by calling for popular reforms, social programs and regulations to benefit the lives of ordinary people. Most popular socialists disregard or are not even sure what socialism is because they are consumed with these popular, practical reforms within capitalism.

The premise of the question is untrue.

Absolutely not. Carnegie was a prototypical capitalist "robber baron" who ruthlessly exploited his workers.

in Socialist theory, the public ownership of the means of production would allow wealth to be distributed more equally to everyone. they wanted to replace competition with cooperation.

Venezuela and Bolivia are both governed by presidents and political parties describing themselves as socialist.

Britain is the home of Fabian socialism.

burying individual initiative under layers of bureaucracy.

Government ownership of most productive resources

After the Civil War many were left crippled or widowed and had no means of earning a living for themselves. As a result, people began to wonder if the government could be used as an agency of social welfare (AKA socialism)

On the surface, there is absolutely no difference between the two parties. The only difference between the two is their tactics.

The PSL focuses on shock politics, running candidates that have no chance of winning and marching in parades/protests that will not secure the change they seek.

The Communist Party USA focuses on coalition building, working with unions and Democrats to try to build a better society for all workers, rather than a shock and awe policy. However, with very little media attention or solid marketing strategy, the Communist Party USA is in a state of limbo: existing under remarkable obscurity.

If the two parties could work together and combine both approaches, they would become a juggernaut on the left. Furthermore, if the two could work in coalition with Greens, Unions, and small businesses (first, to rework the electoral process to make it easier for third parties to run; second, to promote a "working America" value-based, political campaign), they could remake the way our system works from a grassroots level.

Statism: the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.

Socialism: An economic system in which the production and distribution of goods are controlled substantially by the government rather than by private enterprise

Socialism is mostly economic and Statism is both economic and political. All Socialists are Statists but not all Statists are Socialist (Case in point: Iran, Statist but not officially Socialist)

A socialist economic system combined with a totalitarian system of government.

The use of totalitarianism as a means to promote or develop a socialist society, such as the USSR under Stalinism.

No. George Orwell, the author of the novel, was a prominent democratic socialist who had leanings towards the ideas of Leon Trotsky. He mainly criticizes the totalitarian regime of Stalin (Napoleon) , which at the beginning was welcomed by the other animals (people of Russia), but soon turned into a totalitarian rule. Famous quote: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others".

Yes, there is socialized medicine in Argentina. Socialized medicine is when you and the company you work for pay into taxes for medical care.

Beginning in the 1950s, both socialism (in the East) and capitalism (in the West) began to rely on forms of economic planning within firms or within the economy as a necessary measure to coordinate activities in large industries. Industries grew larger because of increasing returns to scale, and within capitalism, there was a growing movement for more workplace autonomy and self-management within companies, although this was very limited.

It was also envisioned by some notable economists and sociologists like John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Schumpeter that management, planning and organization were becoming increasingly specialized roles that would have to be fulfilled by trained, technical experts in their respective fields, eroding the case for small-scale entrepreneurial capitalism -and- democratic socialism.

Communism

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Republic governments are democratic and usually have free market economies. Socialist governments are basically a watered down version of communism in which they usually have a command economy where the government owns the businesses and tells them what to produce, when to produce it and how many to produce. freedom!!!