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Communism is just late stage socialism. Besides even if they were two separate things, by design in socialism nearly everything is centrally planned. Corruption
by chaostheory 3y ago
Communism is just late stage socialism. Besides even if they were two separate things, by design in socialism nearly everything is centrally planned. Corruption just spreads much faster in systems where you centralize power from the start ie you want the groups running the media, producing goods, and managing the laws to be separate entities
- bruce511 3y agoI think we'll gave to agree to disagree there. In my understanding socialism and communism are two very different animals. Communism is about the absolute equality of all - no rich, no poor. Socialism is about caring for the poor, with no upper bound on the rich. In other words one squeezes from the top down. The other pushes from the bottom up.
- chaostheory 3y agoWhat you’ve just described are socialized safety net programs inside mixed capitalist economies. That’s not socialism. There is no private ownership in socialism. Consequently, there are no rich in that system. The “community” owns and produces everything.