What is the difference between communism and socialism?
According to Marx, socialism is a stage on the way to communism, which is the more advanced stage of humyn organization not yet achieved in China or the Soviet Union, even according to Lenin, Stalin and Mao. According to Marx, under socialism we have a dictatorship of the proletariat which is a government organized for the defense of survival “rights.” Also, distribution goes by the principle “from each according to his/her ability, to each according to his/her work.” Under communism, according to Marx, the government disappears and there is economic cooperation as well. The principle of distribution becomes “from each according to his/her ability, to each according to his/her need.” Socialists and communists existed before Marx. Marx is the single most-respected authority and reference point, but the words “socialism” and “communism” still have various shades and applications, because of the diversity amongst those calling themselves “communist” and “socialist.” Many calling themselve
The short answer is socialism is “from each according to their ability and to each according to their DEEDS,” and communism is “from each according to their ability and to each according to their NEEDS.” The longer answer is socialism is the step between capitalism and communism. Socialism still has people working for wages, for example. Socialism is the society that will pave the way for a communist society by setting a foundation of co-operation and sharing of all things in common. Communism is the realization of these goals.
All Communists are for socialism, seeing it as a transition stage to communism, a higher stage of economic, political, and social development. All socialists aren t for communism; some see Communists as too radical. Socialism is social ownership of the main means of production (factories, transportation) and the commanding heights of an economy (banks and other financial institutions) and runs them in the interests of the working people, using part of the value that workers produce to build up the social institutions and benefits for the whole people. Communism, as we see it, is a more advanced stage that comes after socialism. Communism, a stage of development never reached anywhere yet, reduces the state apparatus to minimal administrative functions, since people and society will have advanced past the need for coercive functions like armies, and will directly and indirectly provide people with the full benefits of the labor they engage in. We see communism as a later stage of develo
