Soviet Union is part one of two.
The United States was part two of one 2009 to 2017.
Infact American's are less socialists than Nordic.
American's are more progressive left Democrat's.
Nordic people are more socialists of Democrat's.
Communism and socialism
Since the 1840s,
communism has usually been distinguished from
socialism. The modern definition and usage of the latter would be settled by the 1860s, becoming the predominant term over the words
associationist,
co-operative and
mutualist which had previously been used as synonyms. Instead,
communism fell out of use during this period.
An early distinction between
communism and
socialism was that the latter aimed to only socialise
production, whereas the former aimed to socialise both production and
consumption (in the form of free access to
final goods). By 1888, Marxists employed
socialism in place of
communism which had come to be considered an old-fashioned synonym for the former. It was not until 1917, with the
Bolshevik Revolution, that
socialism came to refer to a distinct stage between
capitalism and
communism, introduced by
Vladimir Lenin as a means to defend the
Bolshevik seizure of power against traditional Marxist criticism that Russia's
productive forces were not sufficiently developed for
socialist revolution. A distinction between
communist and
socialist as descriptors of political ideologies arose in 1918 after the
Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party renamed itself to the
All-Russian Communist Party, where
communist came to specifically refer to socialists who supported the politics and theories of Bolshevism,
Leninism and later in the 1920s of
Marxism–Leninism, although
communist parties continued to describe themselves as socialists dedicated to socialism.
Both
communism and
socialism eventually accorded with the cultural attitude of adherents and opponents towards
religion. In
Christian Europe,
communism was believed to be the
atheist way of life. In
Protestant England, the word
communism was too
phonetically similar to the Roman Catholic
communion rite, hence English atheists denoted themselves socialists.
Friedrich Engels argued that in 1848, at the time when
The Communist Manifesto was first published, "socialism was respectable on the continent, while communism was not". The
Owenites in England and the
Fourierists in France were considered respectable socialists while working-class movements that "proclaimed the necessity of total social change" denoted themselves
communists. This latter branch of socialism produced the communist work of
Étienne Cabet in France and
Wilhelm Weitling in Germany. While democrats looked to the
Revolutions of 1848 as a
democratic revolution which in the long run ensured
liberty, equality and fraternity, Marxists denounced 1848 as a betrayal of working-class ideals by a
bourgeoisie indifferent to the legitimate demands of the
proletariat.
