What's the Difference between Socialists and Communists?

[Wehrwolfen]

What's the Difference between Socialists and Communists?


By: Reaganite Republican
18 December 2012


Joke from communist-era Poland still rings-true...


Teen: 'Father, what's the difference between socialists and communists?'


Dad: 'The communists shoot you right in the head, while socialists torment you through your whole life.'

[Excerpt}

Read more:
RR: What's the Difference between Socialists and Communists?

 

[Oddball]

Socialists pretend that they're doing everyone a big fat favor.

Commies just send you to the gulag if you don't like it.

Other than that, about nothing.

 

[SniperFire]

Communists are unapologetic Socialists.

 

[regent]

To consider the differences, the two terms would have to be defined, but how many of us can define the two terms? Their main usage in America is in their use as political labels, labels meant to evoke an emotional response. If the thread has much response I would suspect a lot of trivial type answers indicating our lack of definition.

 

[Duped]

They are both shit - so no need to dfferentiate.

 

[Avatar4321]

It's only a matter of degrees.

 

[tooAlive]

Socialism is the redistribution of wealth for the collective good.

Communism is the redistribution of wealth at gunpoint.

 

[regent]

Socialism is the redistribution of wealth for the collective good.

Communism is the redistribution of wealth at gunpoint.

If there was a redistribution of wealth under Marx, what was the wealth that was redistributed at gun point?

 

[Oddball]

Socialism is the redistribution of wealth for the collective good.

Communism is the redistribution of wealth at gunpoint.

If there was a redistribution of wealth under Marx, what was the wealth that was redistributed at gun point?

Y'ever heard what happened to people who said no to the Reds?

 

[Oldguy]

A better question for the Nutter's would be the difference between Socialism/Communism and Fascism.

Most of them don't know. They think one equates to the other.

 

[Hardcandy]

Socialism is the stepping stone immediately preceding Communism which is the stepping stone immediately preceding Totalitarianism.
_________________________________________________
socialism - definition of socialism by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

so·cial·ism (ssh-lzm)
n.
1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
2. The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved
__________________________________________________
socialism [ˈsəʊʃəˌlɪzəm]
n
1. (Economics) an economic theory or system in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange are owned by the community collectively, usually through the state. It is characterized by production for use rather than profit, by equality of individual wealth, by the absence of competitive economic activity, and, usually, by government determination of investment, prices, and production levels Compare capitalism
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any of various social or political theories or movements in which the common welfare is to be achieved through the establishment of a socialist economic system
3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Leninist theory) a transitional stage after the proletarian revolution in the development of a society from capitalism to communism: characterized by the distribution of income according to work rather than need

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
__________________________________________________
socialism
1. a theory or system of social organization advocating placing the ownership and control of capital, land, and means of production in the community as a whole. Cf. utopian socialism.
2. the procedures and practices based upon this theory.
3. Marxist theory. the first stage in the transition from capitalism to communism, marked by imperfect realizations of collectivist principles. — socialist, n., adj. — socialistic, adj.

-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
__________________________________________________

These are the unabridged facts and anyone who tells you any different most likely bought into the Socialist Utopian lie themselves.

 

[Oddball]

Hmmm...

Communism: Centrally planned economies, military dictatorship, social stratification via political affiliation, vast propaganda machines with strict censorship, oppressive police state, and concentration/slave labor camps (if not summary execution) for dissenters and other "undesirables".

Fascism: Centrally planned economies, military dictatorship, social stratification via political affiliation, vast propaganda machines with strict censorship, oppressive police state, and concentration/slave labor camps (if not summary execution) for dissenters and other "undesirables".


Yup...There's a whooooole lotta difference between those two forms of authoritarian tyranny!

 

[tooAlive]

Socialism is the redistribution of wealth for the collective good.

Communism is the redistribution of wealth at gunpoint.

If there was a redistribution of wealth under Marx, what was the wealth that was redistributed at gun point?

More like the equal redistribution of poverty, once the state got a hold of all the wealth.

 

[Votto]

What's the Difference between Socialists and Communists?


By: Reaganite Republican
18 December 2012


Joke from communist-era Poland still rings-true...


Teen: 'Father, what's the difference between socialists and communists?'


Dad: 'The communists shoot you right in the head, while socialists torment you through your whole life.'

[Excerpt}

Read more:
RR: What's the Difference between Socialists and Communists?

Socialists are communists without any gonades.

 

[Oldguy]

Hmmm...

Communism: Centrally planned economies, military dictatorship, social stratification via political affiliation, vast propaganda machines with strict censorship, oppressive police state, and concentration/slave labor camps (if not summary execution) for dissenters and other "undesirables".

Fascism: Centrally planned economies, military dictatorship, social stratification via political affiliation, vast propaganda machines with strict censorship, oppressive police state, and concentration/slave labor camps (if not summary execution) for dissenters and other "undesirables".


Yup...There's a whooooole lotta difference between those two forms of authoritarian tyranny!

You're confusing an economic system with totalitarianism. The supposition is that neither economic model can exist outside a repressive government and that's not so.

Don't feel bad, though. Most people don't know the difference.

 

[waltky]

A socialist believes the people should own everything equally...

... a communist believes the state should own everything...

... and ala Animal Farm, some pigs are more equal than others...

... thus the privileged position of communist leaders.

 

[bripat9643]

Socialism is the redistribution of wealth for the collective good.

Communism is the redistribution of wealth at gunpoint.

If there was a redistribution of wealth under Marx, what was the wealth that was redistributed at gun point?

You've never read about the October Revolution, have you?

 

[bripat9643]

A better question for the Nutter's would be the difference between Socialism/Communism and Fascism.

Most of them don't know. They think one equates to the other.

The differences are purely cosmetic. There are far more similarities than differences. Here's a good example: The soviet union had 5 year plans. The Nazis also had 5 year plans. Roosevelt also had a 5 year plan.

 

[bripat9643]

You're confusing an economic system with totalitarianism. The supposition is that neither economic model can exist outside a repressive government and that's not so.

Don't feel bad, though. Most people don't know the difference.

wrong. It is so

 

[jtpr312]

Communists are what socialists become when they disarm their populace.