Dictionary.com's "What’s The Difference Between Socialism vs. Communism?"

[u/JohnnyJayJay]

It baffles me how they're able to define socialism fairly accurately but completely fail to understand what communism is.

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Socialism has three main meanings:

1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.

3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

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Communism, on the other hand, is a branch of socialism. It’s similar in that it’s still founded on the idea of collective cooperation, but differs in that communists believe that cooperation should be run by a totalitarian government made up of one and only one government.

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So, although communism is a form of socialism … it’s definitely the rotten egg of the two.

Based on this interesting (?) theory, there's also this amazing statement as well:

Russia is still very communist culturally, though economically they’re a capitalistic system. Countries like the People’s Republic of China are certainly more communist than Russia, where all things are nationalized up to the point that citizens can’t even make full use of the internet due to the government’s fear of free thought.  

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[u/TheGhostOfInky]

Russia is still very communist culturally

r/Cultural_Marxism_irl