Communism vs. Socialism: What's The Difference?
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- There's a lot of confusion surrounding the terms Communism and Socialism. The two are often used interchangeably, even by entire governments and political leaders, but they are not the same at all! So what’s the difference? Find out in this quick explainer.
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All truth. Presidents are already decided
Yes of course it doesn't. All systems are just hoax to fool society. World is controlled by a handful of people's decisions irrespective of region or country
So we should just get rid of the voting process?
@L Denke So what's your solution then?
I love the idea, but the sad reality is that no government can be trusted to distribute money equally among all people.
Because capitalism is an obsolete system that is making our worlds equlity worse
But Communism in its true form actually abolishes government.
No Class
No Money
No Government
Well... BUT people cannot be trusted "to contribute what they can and take only what they need". Until people stop being people, Socialism and Communism will never happen. When the children grow up, they will see this more clearly.
It doesn’t even matter if things are distributed equally….can you imagine every time someone took a test at school and the class was graded on a curve where everyone got the same score? What’s the point in trying?
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@@shush__plz5172 what you mean?
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i hate this quote, because its only if the government does it for the well-being of the Working Class
@@hopseshopsidis its a joke
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Jesus is the Son of G-d. He died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day. He is sitting at the right hand of G-d.
“The goal of socialism is communism” Vladimir Lenin
ejsvifq mabmip,
Never mind what you think I sounds like how about answering the perfectly valid questions I asked you about your previous comment:-
Are you saying that the Russian, Chinese, Cuban, revolutions were not at the time they happened justifiable results of corrupt autocratic rule by those in charge of the countries concerned? And what has AIDS got to do with the raise of Communism? We can blame Communism or capitalism for a lot of things but aids?
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It changed very long ago. I leaded a party which was against communism and called himself a Socialist, in 1969 similar to Bernie Sanders!
Kim Jung Un Vladimir Putin is not a socialism tirade or believe in communism he went to the American system of democracy what does that tell you you moron
Kim Jung Un give nobody private ownership of property or businesses which leaves THE GOVERNMENT TO COME AND THAT YO $HIT! NO THANKS! NOTICE HOW THEY DON'T EXPLAIN A TAX SYSTEM OR NOTHING?
IT'S A PURE SCAM! THE SOCIALISM GIVES MORE POWER TO THE GOVERNMENT. THE COMMUNISM TAKES POWER AWAY FROM THE POWERFUL BILLION DOLLAR COMPANIES IN CORPORATIONS.
THEN THE GOVERNMENT SWOOPS IN AND TAKES IT. CORPORATIONS AND RICH COMPANIES ARE BAD BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO BE RULED BY A GOVERNMENT THEY ARE HORRIBLE.
THESE CORPORATIONS DON'T OWN YOU, WHEN GOVERNMENTS TAKE OVER THEY OWN YOU.
IN AMERICA IT'S PRETTY BAD FOR THE POOR AND LOWER CLASSES, BUT THE GOVERNMENT CAN'T JUST COME AND TAKE EVERYTHING YOU WANT UNLESS YOU BORROWED MONEY AND DIDN'T PAY BACK.
A CAPITALIST DEMOCRACY + SOCIALISM, AND A PROPERLY FUNCTIONING REPUBLIC, WITH NO CORRUPTION IS THE ULTIMATE SYSTEM.
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Anyone who spends one day in government knows you don't want centralized government controlling the means of production.
“Who let the dogs out?”
-Karl Marx
Who?who?who?who?who?
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The Bourgeoisie.
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A Marx-Man
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“A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.” - Harold Laski
There is a Natural law, popularly known as the 80/20 principle. It's a natural law because till now it has always manifested itself in all fields of Reality. And one of the fields is Economics. The minority of the population will always hold the Majority of wealth and the Majority will always own the minority of wealth. Carl Marx observed this in all Capitalistic economies and created a system he thought would avoid this major flaw. And Marxism did just that. No longer did the 20%(or less) own 80% of wealth. Now, only 1% owned almost everything.
In short, a state will always be divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor. Why? It's a natural law. How? I don't know.
@@rajatsinghbhandari9549 How? The possible answer is that the human intelligence varies and the range of this variation is quite large.
Also there are different types of intelligence. Not all of them are equally effective to pruduce goods and services. For example a man with higher interpersonal intelligence is good at understanding and interacting with people. So he has a better potential to create an industry than a man with higher philosopical intelligence.
Now it will be very stupid and unjust to forcefully bring them at a similar economic class. The person who can produce more for the society will earn more that's the right thing to do.
And many brilliant person will remain poor just because their intelligence is not able to generate that much for others.
And wealth is nothing but cumulative income of multiple generations. Wealth didn’t come from sky.
One valid arguement is that why people should inherit the total property of their parents. Its true that incompetent people get lucky this way without having any real ability. This is the thing i don’t understand. Should a person have wealth which he could not earn otherwise?
@@Lonestar10443 Yeah, I agree that inequalities are natural and equality is impossible and that explains why the 80/20 rule applies to Humans. But that doesn't explain why it works elsewhere, like space or nature.
And why inheritance?
Because most parents love their children and want them to live an easy life and money helps with that.
Communism works that way
@i get it what decision? And the tyranny starts when government takes the wealth of your ancestors from you and give it to the people who never earned it at the first place. I will never work hard in a socialist country so that the gov can take my money from my children and others get benefited with it.
Stalinism as an ideology doesn't properly exist; in fact Stalin himself was not a "Stalinist," but a Marxist-Leninist. Stalinism simply refers to the policies enacted by Stalin, but he wasn't following his own separate ideology when forming or enacting those policies, he was simply following Marxist-Leninist thought
Socialism in one country was his ideology
Debatable, Stalin's specific plans for modernising the USSR could be called Stalinism, although it's very silly for anyone who isn't living in 20th century Russia to claim to be a 'Stalinist'
Can you please point out where Marx prescribed dictatorship? If you can't, then you can't call Stalin a "marxist" - spoileralert: You can't.
Two giant propaganda-machines have upheld the notion that the USSR was a communistic endeavour: The sovjets - in order to gain legitimacy within, and the US - to scare the world. Neither of them were right.
@@benjaminwilliams2264 it's Lenin idea
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In all fairness, before the Taliban kerfuffle, Afghanistan was a "communist" country at one point.
For me too
@@VV_PaVria They were not true communism though. No communist country has correctly applied the Utopian and impossible goal of communism.
Lol I'm literally reading the comments trying to solve this puzzle haha
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They weren’t communist. It was never established. The people rebelled and won.
Everything government touches, it destroys.
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thats what she said .
"I am somewhat an expert in economics and have a very strong opinion"
-this comment section
Agree.
what moron is an expert in economics and thinks communism is a good idea
@@joebidenisapedophile moron identified^^ oh, the irony
Milith Dheerasekara um no i dont think communism is a good idea
@@milithdheerasekara6957 he's literally right
I disagree with the fact that the greed of the government is the sole reason we’ve never seen a true communist government, revolutionaries who were assassinated and the one I’m thinking of is Thomas sankara may have been able to get to that point
Thomas was assassinated by the government (CIAl
There's also Leon Trotsky, who was said to be assassinated by the Soviets during his exile.
Communism will never be achieved because it relies too much on the conformity of people. Same reason why true capitalism has never been achieved. People are greedy.
@@hihello8771his assassination was orchestrated by the Ivory Coast and France not the cia
"There are two kinds of equality. The equality that levels and destroys, and the equality that elevates and creates."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
- George Orwell
@@msosa9735 Actually if you research the Incan Empire and its M'ita labour system you'll see that this proto-socialist system was ever-expanding and created fantastically efficient transportation and agricultural systems. The problem with it though was that it required the empire to continually expand, but I guess you could say that about GDPs today.
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🌟༻🅹🅰🆈🅵🅰༺ ✓ • 5 years ago marx was an egalitarian. he called egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies a type of primitive communism because everyone worked together.
@@ammosophobia ah yes those word Im bout to say at Hitler
An actively adjusted balance between capitalizing and socializing is what is necessary, and this balance is only achievable through democracy.
Nah it sucks
Corruption is the source of the whole world's problems. It doesn't matter what the system is if someone exploits it for their own betterment at the expense of another. Equality in all interactions is the ideal everyone need to aim for.
I'd say selfishness is the true evil. :(
I would say that selflessness is the root of all evil. All Authoritarian regimes on the left or the right advocated the repression of the "self" for the greater good of the collective. Sacrifice yourself for others. Let ants be our model. 🤔😎
The success of socialism is still worst than the mistakes of capitalism
Equality is the goal of most human beings. Your above statement regarding corruption is the reason why complete equality is never obtained.
@@adventuresnorthwest3643 Then there is equity to consider.
Also, by definition, there has never been a country that practiced "true" free market capitalism. The state has always had its fingers in the pie and bad actors have always used the state to secure unfair advantages in the market place.
Yup. Liberty if always the first to fall
I would say that there has never been a country where the state has not been influenced and even owned by the financial system and big corporations. The free market that most so called libertarians advocate for is already a reality and that's is why we live in a economical Darwinist jungle where who has the most money can do whatever they want.
Somalia is free market capitalism
ultimately society needs some form of coercion to function. The difference between socialism in all its forms & capitalism is that in the latter you may voice your opinon without fear of assasination, poisoning or imprisonment, as in Putin's Russia
@@guyvert49 - you have authoritarianism mixed up with socialism. Putin's Russia is an authoritarian, capitalist oligarchy.
Shouldn’t our economy serve humanity rather than the other way around?
Just sayin
Well u gotta serve to get served back
Yes, comrade, it should
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@deadshot So
Samething.
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Yes
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." - Archbishop Hélder
If only I understood whatever this meant
@@thegoofiekilla it is a reference to the terme ideology defined by Marx. It means that the poor want to survive, but due to ideology they refuse to understand the cause of their suffering: capitalist exploitation. (see marx for the definition of capitalist exploitation and the surplus theory)
@@MsMattmatt24 THIS. So many people say things that are about dismantling capitalism or have communist ideals, but when you say 'communism' they freeze. My mum and her generation and the generation before had widespread communist beliefs in Thailand but when I said her favourite band was communist she looked shocked and didn't understand.
@@fairy5668 true. I think that if people would know what communism is really about, the vast majority would agree with that school of thoughts.
Because at the end of the day, it is about freedom, justice and fraternity.
@@MsMattmatt24 Freedom and fraternity? Hardly. Communism enslaves people through the subjugation and ownership of their labor. The only groups of people who stand to benefit from communism are the ultra poor, the lazy, and current communists. Everyone else stands to gain nothing and lose everything.
Communism is akin to slavery in pre-Civil War America, but expanded to include everyone.
I think no matter what system you implement it does not really matter, someone will always disagree and given time one or many will find a way to destroy it
Lol good point
I also think that there are times where one system works better than the others. I think in time of war socialism works better.
I do not agree, according to Marx himself that systems fails because of the contradictions that creates (historical materialism) , so if we had a system that doesn't create contradictions (communism) it would not fail, but socialism does tho because it has classes still.
That, and people are flawed and corrupt and power hungry and evil. So no system created by man will ever work.
Thus, the smaller system the better
@@liberalizzzm4908 Principally because Socialism is really a precursor to Communism.
1:43 “in socialism, a democratic state cont-“
Stop
Zoom right there
“democratic”
*turns to every communist dictator after Stalin*
“Did you even read the manifesto?”
*Dictators stare into the void*
Well they were elected, but not by the people but by the main party and some block parties.
The problem was: These poeple basically controlled the party that elected them.
So once again, humanity destroyed what could've been a great thing
"I don't eat peanuts."
-Karl Marx
I didnt get it
Charolastra Could it be a joke about Ad hominem?
@@cambridge5770 It's a statement about how neither Marx not Engles practiced what they preached.
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"USSR!"
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Wait, this is true but the soviets is communist so what?
@@martin_xv dude, do not ever doubt the red baron
@@martin_xv this is where the stalinism and marxism mixes up... because in terms of marxism ussr was still in the middle step of socialism (for more than 50 years) while in terms of stalinism and stalin ideas, he was already pretty happy with the ussr so there was no reason for him to abdicate the power
@@martin_xv they are not communist they are socialists
The problem with Socialism and Communism is in their core ideas. Main and most important rule of both ideas is "Dictatorship of proletariat" which means no other ideas, political parties are allowed in state where Socialism and Communism rule.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
“Dictatorship of the proletariat” because dictatorship under the bourgeois is beyond awful, i’ve seen this argument before, i think its important to point out every political part that isn’t a people’s party serves to establish or maintain capitalism so its important for the dictatorship of the proletariat to have one representative party
All of the answer,you've got a very correct and brilliant answer!you are correct,dictatorship of proletariat,not only proletariat''it's also communism and socialism,is a single communist party system DICTATORSHIP...
@@lcdream4213Dictatorship actually recreates a set of social hierarchies which Marxism originally aimed at destroying. You can't want a classless society but wanting a class of it to rule everything.
Dictatorship of the proletariat means that the state is controlled by the working class instead of a capitalist oligarchy.
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These versions are the 57 varieties of confusion and distortion, socialism/communism has Not failed it's yet to be established.
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Jesus is the Son of G-d. He died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day. He is sitting at the right hand of G-d.
"Look. If you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it, or let it slip."
-Stalin to Trotsky 1922.
Snap back to the capital
Oops there goes the bourgeoisie
Whoops here's democracy
(Loses election)
Nope, no democracy
Yea Communist/Socialist Governments own everything... citizens are just slaves of the Government.
This may come as a surprise to you, but there has never been a truly free country.
Jacob Wood Jacob wood got no wood
@@nathangg8429 people have right to kill another people to survive. Because i can kill you than you can also kill me so since both of us is afraid of death we give our 'right' to kill others to the state of law so we can safe and survive this live. As long as people in society is still give up their right to the law of society there are no free society and because the societies is not free society therefore there are no free country. US is not the close to what free country look like since the hierarchical law still chain up the society to abide it so US is just the same as another countries in this planet not more free than the others, since the different is just what law should enacted and dont, it not make one country more free tha others because that country is still have that law that individual give their right for it.
what do you even mean by "Free country" ? As long as there is law & order its not free. there has never been and there will never be.
@@nathangg8429 that is a lie, one of the most free countries in the world in probably new Zealand
@@nathangg8429 new Zealand is also ranked 3rd in the world for economic freedom
The way I was taught, Marx's writings were theory, he knew the inherit actions of man would never let it come to reality. Summed up by ,"power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely". Short version.
"The goal of socialism is communism". Source? LENIN!!!
And who recorded him saying that?
@@tylergoudreau4865 Everyone equally
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Wow you sound excited about that Lenin quote
@@PoradnikiPanaMietka Marx my dude
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Do You take all those free plastic spoons in every cafeteria You enter? This video is wrong about that communism starts as soon as state gott all the control. Nope. It starts as soon as wealth in same abundance as those spoons. "Communism = Socialism + Electrification of whole country" (c) Lenin (Yep, they believed that once elictricity will be everywhere, wealth will be in abundance...)
@@slicemf5347 Why are you using spoons as your analogy? For your one example with spoons I can counter with hundreds of examples where people take more than they need if it is free, such as houses, food, clothing, water, wood, oil, etc. Also, there will never be abundance, the best we can do is let a free market allocate resources most efficiently.
@@amarmesic7170 I mean its probably because those things mean more to a capitalist society. More houses and all seems like more wealth, which leads to higher social standing and it starts to compound into more wealth over time. In a socialist society having enough IS enough and you get more from experiences, rather than materials, equally. Like how everyone could be allocated vacation with the choice of doing anything. so someone can actually afford a cruise where in a capitalist society theyd never could. Its not really possible tho Im just playing devil's advocate. edit: also im oversimplifying it.
Everything, including "experiences," costs money, or some other resource. There exists no society where all, nay, most of its members won't take more resources than they know they need. And that's not accounting for those people who really do think they need more than they actually do.
You're describing a system that doesn't eliminate greed, but instead requires greed to be eliminated before it will work.
3:00 and North Korea is called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea... so what?
Yeah that doesn’t make them communist, they were a state with money and class.
yeah adding a "democratic" onto its title doesn't make it a democratic country
Dont play music in backgrounds
"GG EZ"
-Karl Marx
“Women hold half of the sky”
- Mao Zedong
That means that they share it with men, and sharing is communism. I think that Mao might be a communist.
We're supposed to be posting fake quotes
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- George Washington
Aparently, Marx himself wrote "in socialism you get paid according to your work, in communism you work according to ability and receive according to need". In the Socialist warsaw-pact countries this meant miners were paid more per hour than doctors.
For many Socialists, socialism is not just a stepping stone to Communism, but good enough by itself. Many Communists however believe that Communism won't be a feasible option until decades or centuries of Socialism have "eradicated scarcity".
Also, neither Socialism nor Communism are about the state or about abolishing private possessions. They"are about the *means of production* being owned by local democratic collectives. One of the goals of Communism is that the state "withers away".
Some people call themselves anarcho-communist or anarcho-socialist to distance themselves from hierarchical/centralist ones and from the so-called "anarcho-capitalists"
You spelled apparently wrong it's *apparently.
In communism everyone gets paid the same we all get universal basic income based off of our work.
You're wrong man communism is about the abolishing of private ownership
The Nordic countries are not socialist however. They are welfare capitalist states.
No, they are Socialists in Sweden, etc... They just don't know it. They've been lied to... they are people conned and keep regurgitating that lie in stubborn ignorance, and due to a life of cowardice, and a Socialistic biased education system, they foolishly democratically vote for their continuing Socialism... Thinking they're capitalists in a "Social Democracy", but are a model of guinea pigs for the oligarchical Globalist agenda.
I'm not going to contribute to their delusions...
"Globalism" is passive-aggressive Communism.
Mark Lewis they definitely aren’t, they are what would be called social democracies which are capitalist
@@drewkavi6327 ... I understand why you are saying that, but I assure you, the aggregate of Capitalism and Socialism is Communism. The enormous taxes levied on the Sweeds for example is just a renaming the Socialistic program.
The Sweeds are a model for the Passive-aggressive Communism taking over the world... It's called Globalism.
Please, don't listen to anyone... Learn what they all are (Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Republic, and Democracy.) Don't take my word for it, your teachers word, or the video.. Learn for yourself and you will see I am telling you the truth.
They want you to listen to them... I want you to discern and decide on your own by learning for yourself... I have every confidence and believe in you to come to the right educated decision. That should tell you something.
Then let's do what they do.
@@cax1175 ... No, they are not the example to follow, but are the myrmidons whom blindly follow their Socialism and globalism. You don't understand what Socialism is if you want it
Socialism is dependence on government handouts. The government controls all the money and resources produced by the people... The government determines who gets what, if anything at all. In the history of your government, have they been honest good stewards of the money, or wasteful, corrupt, power hungry fat cats?
You don't want Socialism, and you definitely don't want "The New Communism" called Globalism.
I’ve got news for you… we’ve never had a socialist society anywhere either.
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@@JDP2104 Listen man. I'm sorry, ok? Your comments are always present in videos related to history and politics, and I just cannot resist from replying. How is the discord server going, btw?
If there is a server, that is.
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They didn't mention Cuba.
What about Cuba?
And what about Tito
@@97EDUB Cuba has been a communist island since the 1950's when dictator Fidel Castro and "the revolution" came into power. Why wouldn't they mention Cuba among Venezuela and others?
ULISES GARCIA Maybe because It’s a unincorporated territory and since they established their own constitution with the Public Act 600 that was signed by Harry S. Truman who was still president at that time allow them to established the commonwealth independently from the United States.
@@97EDUB Cuba is an unincorporated territory of whom? As far as I know, Cuba is an independent country. Cuba has had several constitutions, one in 1901,1940,1976 and a brand new one that was drafted by the "Communist Party task force" July 14 2018 So what? How is that even relevant? As if any constitution drafted after 1952 meant absolutely anything. Are you pro Communism/Marxism? Think the Castro's and Maduro are doing a good job do ya?
"I'm too late for this TH-cam comments trend."
-Read my name
Communism is only a Philosophical (and Economic), Theory, framed within UTOPIA. U have heard of Communism, but you DO NOT know what Communism is. You don't know the good Communism has done to the US people. To understand it, you should see with careful eyes what Capitalism is. Without the appearance of Communism, you would be living within an entirely Capitalist Gov’t System (I said System, and not Model), and you would not have benefits for work, like these: SRSW (Special Rights of the Specialized Worker); a fair salary, rewards and compensation, health coverage and accidents; Social Security, retirement, paid vacations, 8-hour days, 2-days off. Nursery and maternity... you would have nothing. NO Right to protest and demonstrate, and even less, the Right to Strike. The US has all that and it is thanks to the Theories of Communism. Look here: Communism is an Economic Model, and NOT precisely a Gov’t System. [* Government System, or Political System are: Monarchy; Dictatorship; Theocracy, Republic and Democracy. The Economic Models are: Capitalism, Communism, Socialism (which can also be a Political System), Free Market (which leads to Imperialism or Liberalism), Mixed Economy, and, Centralized Economy. The Government System, GOVERNMENT. The Economic Model, ADMINIST or Manage the resources of a Country]. Well then. Communism is an Economic Model that up to now has NOT been applied anywhere on the planet. Why? Cuz Communism is INAPPLICABLE. Communism is a Utopia impossible to impose. It is a wonderful dream. It is a great Theory but, in reality IT DOES NOT WORK. For you to understand, there is a comparison. Communism is like Christianity. As you should know, Christianity is based on charity, kindness, tolerance, and self-denial. In good thoughts and best deeds but, it is IMPOSSIBLE to achieve that. Nobody is a good Christian. We are envious, violent, cheating, or self-righteous. Nobody turns the other cheek; no one keeps the Ten Commandments. The idea is good, but it is Inapplicable. Well, the same thing happens with Communism. The Theory it is Inapplicable too. Only two countries have declared themselves Communist: The USSR and China. (Now, at this moment, and since the events of Tiananmen Square (1989), China is an Open Economy. But since the Theory of the Communist Economic Model is an Unapplicable Utopia, today neither China nor Russia are Communists. And what was left of Communism? SOCIALISM. Today, Norwegian, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany, Austria, France, Luxenburg, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and 33 of the 35 countries of the American Continent are Socialists. The US Democratic Party is Socialist. Even Socialism, due to its scope and application, can be considered a Political System. Socialism, being a Model, can work with the Monarchy, the Dictatorship, or with Democracy. Works well with all Systems, as long as CORRUPTION is eradicated, Communism is a Utopian Theory that cannot be applied in reality. The consequence of the Communist Economic Model is SOCIALISM. What is the difference between Communism and Socialism? (Apart from the fact that one is Inapplicable and the other is not, since Socialism does apply throughout the world). The answer is: PRIVATE PROPERTY. (But NOT PERSONAL PROPERTY). In the Communist Economic Model, the MEANS OF PRODUCTION are in charge of the State. In Socialism, Private Property and ALL the Means of Production (Or almost all), are in the hands of private companies. Norway, for example, has a Mixed Economic Model, but it is SOCIALIST. Where does this information come from? The true fact that in Norway Medical Services, Education, Transport, Social Protection, Funeral Services , Assistance to Vulnerable Sectors, etc. belongs to the State. And there is even more. In Norway, Banking Services are REGULATED by the State. Banks are NOT owned by the State, but the State regulates them cuz it knows very well what the Capitalists are capable of if they are not closely watched. Do you know why André Rieu offers a mega concert every year in Norway? Cuz Culture is in the hands of the State: Zoo, Museums, Theater, Music, Literature, Dance, Plastic Arts, Performing Arts, etc. Everything is paid by the State. Young people under 18 and adults over 60, do not pay anything, it is covered by the State. Norway IS Socialist. And Why is Capitalism mortally opposed to the Theories of Communism? Because Communism exhibits Capitalism in all its ferocity. Cuz it exposes the savagery of their methods. Capitalism puts above all, economic gains. Here it doesn't matter if all the trees in the Amazon jungle are cut down, as long as they make a profit. Here it doesn't matter if the land, the water in the rivers, or the air we breathe is depleted or poisoned, as long as we make a profit. Here it doesn't matter if the worker is exploited, as long as they make a profit. Capital gains are lost by paying the Worker's Rights. That is why Capital seeks workers outside the US. In Asia, in Pakistan, in India, in Latin America. There, where the Unions do not "bother" and the Workers can be Enslaved for $7.80 an hour... Or less.
“Everyone does what they can to contribute.”
So zounds of people play dumb and pretend to lack skills so they have to work less.
Where’s the incentive to work hard?
That's one of the reasons why it doesn't work. There is no reason for you to work hard. If you make 5 chairs in a day and the other guy makes 2, you both get paid the same.
The "greater good" part comes when you mix socialism with nationalism.
People would be raised with the WE mindset not ME mindset, they would be eager to use their skills for the betterment of society. A lazy person who does not want to work would be looked upon as selfish.
A combination from all sides of the political spectrum would be a utopia the hard borders and minimum immigration from the right and the worker representation and minimum class difference of the left
@@Table925 A utopia by definition, would be a dystopia.
The knowledge that your hard work raises the living standard of the commune you're a part of would be a good motivator.
People have really been brainwashed into thinking that personal gain is the only way to motivate workers.
'Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on'.
- Leon Trotsky.
-Ho Chi Minh
Good wording "ELIMINATE classes" :). Atleast the classes you dislike, then you'll only have 1 class left. And then they'll find the next way to divide and you'll be eliminated yourself in that group. And at that point you might have some regrets.
Congrats,you found a comment which is not a quote.
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You can't collectively work to being "happy healthy and free" because everyone has a different perception of happiness and you'll definitely not be free when the government forces you to do their bidding.
*Dib*
Wtf are you talking about? Lol
Freedom, to Marx, is having to work fewer hours since surplus would be removed from the equation. By needing to work fewer hours, you are free to live your life to find what fulfills you and makes you happy. The point of socialism, in the Marxian sense, isn’t the government demanding what you are to do, but you demanding what you want the government to do (empowered unions and greater democracy).
yep
@@Kyle_Schaff No dumbfuk. Socialism works by the government controlling you and calling it the "'people's will". You people are beyond naive.
@@stevedoetsch Socialism is all about central planning and central planning is tyranny . Socialism is pure evil shitfest, commienizm is even worse. Soviet union showed everything about socialism/communism.
@@UniDeathRaven You seem to be completely unaware of what you're talking about lol. Socialism and communism tend to be forms of economic theory, unrelated to the level of state control. You're confusing the idea of authoritarianism with socialism and communism.
if you run socialism, you can run capitalism, like China and brand it as "socialism"
US hegemony is going to end in like 10 years thats pretty much set in stone, and it's starting to appear that china will become the biggest threat to a world prole revolution.
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@@是不会飞滴灰机嗯对 看地区，有的地方已经是“走资派”太多，私有化太严重了，有的地方还是国企体制内就是大爷，国内整体大趋势还是社会主义的底子逐步走向资本主义化，现在这么说没撒太大毛病了，但还是有社会主义基因的资本主义
@Kyle Rook Nope, but I am tired of "being CCP bot", just take a holiday off to China and see what's going on there....
@Kyle Rook btw China aint communism but a hybrid of capitalism with socialism authorization (kinda similar to Singapore)
The author is a very familiar kind of a student: he has read everything in the texbook and can even quote it but has not understood a word.
from what I understand, this is a pretty good explanation. for a more concise definition, I would define socialism as a system where the workers own the means of production. I would define communism as a system where the workers own the means of production and collectively decide the means of distribution. when an elected official subverts the power away from the people due to their greed, the country may become economically nationalist (if you could say nationalism has any sort of economic system in the first place), where the government controls production and or distribution but is not representing the workers and people.
I tend to see the difference as political and social rather than economic. Communism is a subcategory of socialism, where, in addition to collective ownership, there is no class, no government, and no religion.
I think you both and the video are a bit wrong. The right way to think about it is that Communism is a subset ideology to socialism. That is to say that Communism is socialism, but not all socialism is communism. Communism happens to be an extreme subset of S, but it is within it's ideological frame.
@@arturodelarosa4394 And all of it was created by the children of elitists, like Marx, who were elitists themselves, looking for a way to become kings and queens of non-royal blood in an era of kings and queens of royal birth.
Every coop requires an army. The army is ALWAYS built from the ranks of the masses. The ONLY WAY these children of elite, non-royal birth could ever hope to hold power in an era of kings and queens was to build an army based on false promises and lies, to get them to fight the ruling class in power and install them as supreme. That's what happened in Russia AND China, and nearly every nation that calls itself 'Communist' all over the world.
The 'mantras' and 'manifestos' are for what Lenin called the "Useful Idiots". The lies and deceptions required to build an army on false promises and make them willing to fight and die to put these rich elite children into power.
Marx and many of his contemporaries were children of the elite. Lenin was one of those children. Every "Frankfurt School" participant like Fromm, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer and the others who gave us "CRITICAL THEORY", "Post Modernist" who embellished it were children of the elite.
The birth of the idea was MADE to make kings and queens out of spoiled children who had no other means to ascend to political power but by the use of force: The total destruction of the current political system. So when one hears; "Critical Race Theory" or other "Critical ____ Theories", it's all an attempt to destroy the normative; to destabilize and bring down the current system while building an army of 'party faithful' to fight the 'good fight' for them so they can take what they believe is their rightful place in power over the masses. Like a king or a queen. Just the way it's always been. Just the way EVERY socialist regime to some degree has become every time its been tried, for this very reason: It was its purpose. By design.
No, in communism people do not need to collectively decide how to distribute, that is needed in socialism. In communism, people only need to take supplies according to their own needs
I don't believe the idea of everyone working to better society would ever work
Funny how he says this now after he makes a video called "Why communism leads to corruption"
Zaza Quit yeah they do, funny how you type this on a machine made in china isn't it.... if you don't like socialism don't buy stuff made in china!
Soviet Union smart devices aren't products of socialism they're just manufactured in a country whose government labels themselves as socialist.
the part of china that participates in producing such products is actually the worst kind of capitalism - it's industrialisation-style exploitation of workers. china is barely even trying to be socialist anymore... its regulations are terrible, and it has spent more than a decade trying to stamp out corruption - but more corrupt officials get arrested every few months, with ever more sensational crimes. meanwhile, china's population remains locked behind its great firewall, being force-fed propaganda while activists are threatened with extra-judicial imprisonment.
people who think china is "doing well" are deluded products of the CCP.
Of course, one authoritarian system is not transparent from outside which leads corruption naturally. What are you wondering about?
i think the point is that properly implementing communism is full of perils. As a result, it's never been successfully enacted.
You’re making communism seems like a walk in the park
"Welcome to the Gulag"
-Vladimir Stalin
Socialism is fair division not necessarily equal....communal goal is classless society..
"In socialism, a democratic state controls the means of production".
That is not correct.
In socialism, means of production is controlled by the democratically elected workers representatives.
That means that a worker working for example for Shell oil company could vote to kick out management that was polluting their environment.
Essentially, means of productions would be democratised.
It is not corporatism. Following your logic, not all voters are equal in ability, so why should they have equal decision for others.
I'm sure there is a flavor of communism that makes that distinction. But marx an Engles Communism, (which is the kind being disected here) does not specify who controls the state. This means it could be a representative democracy. a local collective or a totalitarian regimes for that matter. The communist manifesto leaves this concept open.
Lol no. There can’t be democracy in a despotic political or criminal movement like socialism is. Socialism always fails and has always failed and will continue to do so 😊
Fun fact: that concept is called "stocks" and is already successfully implemented. You can even own a part of a company that's better than that you are employed at and even vote on the management. All you have to do is to buy that stock and pay what it's worth.
I only know either socialism or communism only the rubbish, Democratic and capitalism will work and running good From The history
I think you forgot about the genocide part which almost always happens.
Bogomil Petkov if it has genocide it’s not communism.
Darren Wallace - If it doesn’t have genocide it isn’t communism
You are extremely misinformed.
How does one relate to the other except by coincidence? There’s no rule book of communism that says genocide. I’m not saying it’s guaranteed to work. There have been (are) many socialist governments that work perfectly well. There have indeed been many capitalist societies that have failed as well. We’re watching one on TH-cam
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind Please give quotes by Marx where he calls for the slaughter of a specific race, ethnicity or class.
This guy said, "corruption is rampant in countries like the former USSR, Venezuela, Vietnam and North Korea" (3:20). Does this guy not know that corruption in capitalist societies like the US, UK, etc., is not only ubiquitous but is also higher (in currency terms) than those countries he named? What's more, the level of corruption in the capitalist societies is often downplayed, concealing the true (higher) level of corruption in a country. For example, many US politicians, even tens of millions of Americans would not consider AIPAC lobbying US politicians for influence in Palestine Proper, to be corruption. Corruption in these capitalist societies is so widespread it's legalized (Citizens United).
Move to Venezuela then my guy 😂😂😂😂
There were actually two communist countries. Anarchist Spain (C.N.T.-F.A.I), and The Ukrainian Free Territory
The Ukrainian Free Territory is anarcho-communist and i'm not sure that the Anarcho Spain was actually commie or anarcho commie.
@@twohandedswordsman852 Real Communism Is Anarchism. Communism Is A Stateless, Moneyless, Classless Society
@@cmk4118 Not really, but yeah, a freedom without everything.
I'm catalan (two of my grandma uncles and her father were anarchists, and except the father of my grandma the others were MIA...) Anarchist Catalonia was in war and it never developed a real communist society.
It performed a bit as such thanks to brotherhood, militancy (most of the population was anarchist or communist) and the urge to defeat the fascists...
Also, the Generalitat of Catalonia (government) was never deposed by the anarchists, the same President of Catalonia founded an institution (Central Committee of Antifascist Militias) with a generous representation of all the anarchists and non-stalinist communists and ceded to them most of the executive powers of the government.
They also conquered Aragon, creating a similar institution, the CRDA (Regional Defence Council of Aragon).
Thank you for simplifying this. I’m a socialist and so is my family, but the amount of times I’ve asked them in the past to distinguish socialism from communism where they’ve ended up rambling instead of just keeping it to the point! I think with politics ideologies it’s good to keep it simple for the start, then expand and elaborate in discussion when you’re explaining them, otherwise it’s just confusing
"Socialism is when the government does stuff, and the more socialism, the more stuff it does. And when it does a real lot of stuff, it's communism."
-Karl Marx
@Akash Jacob Exactly, because under communism, there is no money, state or class.
@Akash Jacob I never said it was.
This is funny, but this is the part of the video that is misunderstood. In communism, there is generally NO state (government) and your joke is being taken seriously by people who 99% have no idea what communism is
@@seanh3479 Yeah. The old guy was actually only talking about Socialism.
Can you please explain what actually is communism, socialism and capitalism in a more easier words?? I don't really understand.. Thanks..
We just want no more rights without obligations and no more obligations without rights.
"Big bops and fat stacks, I do be smokin doobies doe."-Karl Marx
"But can we have some definitions?" - Me
Regarding the idea of abolishing private property in a communist system, 'private' property does not mean your personal property -- I thought it did at first, but this is a common misconception. It means property owned by private companies, not property owned personally by citizens. So, for example, your house, car, pet cat, refrigerator and gold tooth wouldn't suddenly become everyone's, they would still be 100% yours.
If socialism is so great start a company based on socialist ideals and it will flourish. It hasn't done so far. Why not?
because companies come out of capitalism
Boi
They're called communes or worker cooperatives. Some are quite successful. But most "socialists" are fake. Most are lazy envious parasites. Arm chair academics while I farm? Mao had the right idea.
Why is political greed more noble than private economic greed ?
Political greed doesn't have to be monetary, but usually the strapping of power comes laced with cold hard cash. Let's look at Hillary and Bill Clinton's speeches in the lead up to the 2016 Presidential campaign for example. There was political greed involved certainly, and many of their speeches earned six figures or more for just their gracing of the event, a mere 30 minutes of blabbing about nothing consequential and voila a millionaire is made. Easy cash for the promise of power within the White House. Did you or did you not donate to the political coffers of the Clinton's? You didn't, well then, sorry but the door is closed to you. How about a nice Uranium One deal to the Russians? How much money would that cost to bribe the Clinton's? $120 million dollar donation to the Clinton Foundation you say? Deal.
I guess my example is showing that both political greed and private economic greed can align into something truly ignoble. So the answer is neither are more noble than the other. Both can be quite disgusting.
" I am going to change the world "
- Me
When you became peasant in Stronghold Crusader
In any group, there is going to be a normal distribution of attributes following a bell curve. You will have the left and right flanks, those that do little and those that do most of the work. Then you have the average people in the middle. The ones on the left half of the curve get the benefits with minimal effort, while those on the right half of the curve get the same benefits as the left side with much more effort. This concept rewards mediocrity, but not hard work.
So M if i work hard to get a head in life, that will never happen instead my hard earn potatoes i worked hard for goes to someone else.... kinda makes me not want to work hard for potatoes
And you also will benefit from someone hard work too.(that the beauty of it)
Oh your children need to be have a quality education (someone hard work) that someone goes to you and other parents kid for free
Oh your dying of a disease which will take (some ones hard work) to cure it does that for free too
Oh your house is burning down because of a fire it need (someone hard work) to extinguish it but someone will do it for free
You give to a community and the community gives back. the potato will feed the teachers the doctors and the fireman (come on dude this isnt a hard concept to grasp)
I know this is over simplified example but you get the point and if bring out the "then people will be lazy argument" we discourage that behavior by the group.
@@conquestv4024 "we discourage that behavior by the group."
You discourage it? How? What will the group do that prevents them from being lazy?
@@RonCrown You threaten to take the last thing they truly own. Their lives 😂
The problem with modern version of american socialist is that they defy your description of Socialism, and accuse you with ignorance. However, they will never explain there form of socialism and even state what socialism that is being formulated in their minds to associate it with the right political term.
But most importantly is that their denial is to avoid any relation that ties them up with the failure of Communist-Socialist ideologies
I’m skeptical when people assert that practical examples of socialism/communism in the real world aren’t valid forms. You could just as easily conclude that the faults of capitalism aren’t actually conceptual, but rather due to poor utilization of the system in recent years. One thing that I don’t think many people understand is it’s one thing to conceptualize a system among economic philosophers, but it’s a completely different thing to implement that system in the real world. Human nature and the nature of human societies isn’t something that we can always account for when conceptualizing these systems, and with past evidences of what this video asserts were pseudo-communist countries, it’s not clear to many people that communism produces its promised effects. Even if we were to implement an overwhelmingly socialist or communist system in the USA, I’m not sold on the idea that it will just work out better than it has throughout history.
"I could've dropped my croissant 🥐"
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"that's why I love beer 🍺"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
So the only real way to have true equality and freedom is to remove the human condition. I.e. Greed, hostility, anger etc...
Cpt. Shmitt and that is why there's no such thing as a communist or socialist Utopia
And good luck with that.
Stop watching Disney movies. There is no such things as world piece. Putin and Trump are never going to hold hands
Equality is impossible and unnatural
so you cant hate those who greed or get angry of it? it sounds like a crown who seeks to destroy people with a smiley face.
Karl Marx was a revolutionary thinker whose ideas reshaped the landscape of political and economic thought, sparking movements that continue to influence global discourse. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, Marx's intellectual journey took him from the philosophical circles of the Young Hegelians to the forefront of radical journalism and eventually to the formulation of his groundbreaking theories on capitalism and class struggle.
Marx's collaboration with Friedrich Engels produced the "Communist Manifesto," a clarion call for the working class that succinctly captured the exploitative dynamics of capitalism. This work, along with his magnum opus Das Kapital, laid the foundation for Marxism, a doctrine that not only critiqued capitalism but also envisioned its overthrow through proletarian revolution.
What sets Marx apart is his materialist conception of history, which argued that economic structures fundamentally shape societal institutions, politics, and culture. His theory of surplus value exposed the inherent exploitation within capitalist economies, where the labor of the many enriches the few. This critique resonated deeply with the working class and intellectuals alike, inspiring socialist and communist movements that sought to realize Marx's vision of a classless society.
However, Marx's legacy is complex. While his analysis of capitalism's flaws remains incisive, the implementation of Marxist ideas in the 20th century, particularly in the Soviet Union and Maoist China, led to regimes that were often authoritarian and oppressive. These outcomes have led to vigorous debates about the applicability and interpretation of Marx's ideas.
Marx's enduring influence lies in his ability to articulate the deep-seated inequities of capitalism and to envision a radically different world. Whether celebrated as a prophet of the working class or critiqued as an ideologue whose ideas were misused, Marx remains one of the most significant and contentious figures in modern history. His work continues to provoke thought and inspire movements, making him a towering figure whose ideas cannot be ignored, even in the 21st century.
So you don’t get exploited by the bourgeoisie but instead the state
"Do you see the difference between these two pictures?"
"They're the same picture"
“ socialism is when the government do there job correctly” Karl Marx
"The goal of socialism is communism"
-Lenin
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind agreed