What is Socialism?
WOa that person wrote too much lol to shorten it up Socialism is a political theory that society as a whole should own the means of production such as factories and land!!!! hopefully this helps..my global teacher repeats this almost everyday to us just to get us ready 4 the global regents ugh!!!!
Socialism is a tricky thing to define since many types exist. Some modern countries that are called socialist really refer to a few aspects of the country. For instance, most government-controlled health care is labeled “social medicine.” There are many countries with such health care plans, which are paid for usually through higher taxation of the people. Such countries don’t necessarily eliminate or dismantle class structure, or advocate rebellion toward the ruling class. If you look at definitions of socialism, you’ll see that it arises in the early 19th century, and that the key work of the time was Karl Marx and Frederick Engel’s The Communist Manifesto published in 1848. In the book, socialism is viewed as a step between a country’s current state and its move to complete communism. Prior to Marx and Engel’s work, there were many people who noted the disparity between rich and poor, and felt systems in a government should help to evenly distribute wealth so that no one was impover
]). Therefore, within the “Anglo-American political culture,” all types of anarchists considered themselves part of the socialist movement. This can be seen not only from Kropotkin’s or Bakunin’s work, but also in Tucker’s (see Instead of a Book). So to claim that the “Anglo-American” anarchists did not have “a long and close historical relationship” with the wider socialist movement is simply false. The statement that anarchists want to severely limit or abolish “private property” is misleading if it is not further explained. For the way it stands, it sounds like anarchism is just another form of coercive “state” (i.e. a political entity that forcibly prevents people from owning private property), whereas this is far from the case. Firstly, anarchists are not against “private property” in the sense personal belongings. “Anarchists,” points out Nicholas Walter, “are in favour of the private property which cannot be used by one person to exploit another — those personal possessions whi
Socialism, as we see it, is not the final answer to social development and communism isn’t either! Societies, like all processes in the world, undergo continual internal struggle, incremental change, and periodic revolutionary transformation. Socialism is a transitional stage because there isn’t a quick straight line between a society based on exploitation and one based on equality, plenty, and human needs as the ultimate determining factor rather than profits. There are many “hidden” aspects of the economy and other social organization that will have to be changed, a process that will be protracted. Socialism, in our view, is a precursor to communism. Socialism is a stage of development where society transforms itself into an economic system based on production for use rather than production for profit, where social need plays a much larger role in political and economic decisions, where the “commanding heights of the economy” are socially owned and run on behalf of society, and where
