what are differences between socialism and marxism?
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Socialism-  you own a cow, the government takes it and gives you some of the milk\n\nCommunism- you own a cow, the government takes it and shoots you for being a corrupt property owner\n\nCapitalism- you own a cow. You sell milk until you can affort to buy a bull.
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Money, the corporate institutions that acquire it, and the political/social means of how it's distributed, are the Gods housed in the Pantheon of Socialism.\n\nThis is the belief structure of most libs;  their God, and the doxology by which they worship.
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Yes it's only a slight difference... In Asia communism is the chief underlying political movement... In the US, socialism is the primary force guiding the leftist - moving government we have had now for over 12 years.
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Socialism is where the means of productions are owned by the society, hence the state and under the hegemony of the proletariat or the working class. It is for ending the exploitations of capitalism by the capitalists over the working people and bringing the working people up for the communist society. Communism is the next stage of socialism where the society will be classless and free of any sort of exploitation. It is more of kind of ultimate goal of the real human society which should be achievable after sufficient span of time, struggle, experiment and effort.
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I would argue that it wasn't.  But it certainly was more theoretical.  Marx version never had to be tested in the trenches of reality.  Whenever communism has been lived out (Leninism, Maoism, etc), it has always led to disaster: either mass poverty or mass violence, or a combination of both.  Marx' approach has never had to be tested, since one can always claim that it was the fault of lenin or Stalin or Mao or whoever that it didn't work.  The reality is that it never really works.
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Actually the Nazis had a socialist form of government.  Now I am not about to start comparing anyone to the Nazis and the atrocities they committed during WW2, but if you were going to compare the 2 major parties in the US, most people would say the Republicans are more capitalist and the Democrats are more socialist. Please post another question if you need a definition of socialism and capitalism, I will be glad to help educate you.
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socialism deals with collective ownership  for example every worker in a restaurant owns the restaurant and split the profit\n\ncapitalism deals with private ownership for example only one person owns a restaurant
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Socialism seeks equality and reduction of poverty through communities that hold the capital and means of production. It seeks to answer the flaws in capitalism (monopoly, income ineauality, etc) which occur where imperfect competition exists in capitalist socities\n\nA lot of the cohesive traditions and laws that bind western societies originated in socialist ideals bequeathed by various relgious groups (eg the Quakers) and 19th century reformers\n\nDo not confuse socialism with communism, where the the government replaces the community (with all that implies in terms of totalitarianism)
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Someone who believes in the socialist ideologies put forth by the philosopher Karl Marx, though he was once quoted as saying "I am not a Marxist" which goes to show that the term really took on a life of its own historically.  The basic concept is that all members of society make roughly equal contributions and receive roughly equal benefits, as opposed to capitalism where people compete for a greater share of society's benefits.  The theory is very in-depth, and scholars still debate over what exactly is implied by the term Marxism, or if or how it differs from socialism or communism.\n\nI think socialism focuses more on social equality and pooling of resources.  Communism focuses on the economic and political constructs of a government that commands the economy and the major industries.
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Share w them what u have learnt. \n\nTell them communism is utopian.\n\nTell them socialism is somewhere between communism and capitalism. It promotes REAL democracy, save the environment, doesn't need people to work like a dog... etc./
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Communism is a society where the Government controls and distributes everything, usually by inspiring fear in the populice.  \n\nThe above answer better describes socialism then communism, though both are remarkably similar.
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Leniin's political party was called Communism, it was socialism, but a branch from the main stem like several other varieties of economic systems...It was the Communist party which was socialist in origin...socialism is not a political party, but an economic system
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Is this a statement or a question?\n\nMarx, Karl \n \n \n1818—83, German social philosopher, the chief theorist of modern socialism and communism.\n\nEarly Life\n\nMarx's father, a lawyer, converted from Judaism to Lutheranism in 1824. Marx studied law at Bonn and Berlin, but became interested in philosophy and took a Ph.D. degree at Jena (1841). He early rejected the idealism of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and turned toward materialism, partly through the influence of Ludwig Feuerbach and Moses Hess.\n\nEarly Work\n\nIn 1842 he became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, but his demands for radical reforms led to its suppression in 1843. He then went to Paris, where he began his lifelong association with Friedrich Engels. At this time Marx became a socialist. He devoured the works of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, the comte de Saint-Simon, and many others. Antagonized by the individualistic radicalism of Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Marx attacked him in The Poverty of Philosophy (1847, tr. 1910), an early attempt to systematize his own thought. In this period also he wrote, with Engels, The German Ideology (tr. 1933), which provided an exposition of his dialectical materialism. Breaking with the tradition of justifying social reform by appeal to natural rights, he invoked "inevitable" laws of history to predict the eventual triumph of the working class.\n\nLater Work and Life\n\nIn 1847 Marx joined the Communist League and with Engels wrote for it the famous Communist Manifesto (1848), which strikingly expressed his general view of the class struggle. The failure of the revolutions of 1848 convinced Marx of the need to stimulate the consciousness and solidarity of the working class through the founding of open revolutionary parties. Exiled from most continental centers, he settled permanently in London in 1849. He lived in poverty, made more bitter by his own chronic illness and the death of several of his children. At times he was able to earn funds as a correspondent for the New York Tribune, but he was continually dependent on Engels for financial aid. Nonetheless, he pursued research in the British Museum and continued to write steadily.\n\nIn 1864 Marx helped to found the International Workingmen's Association. Through this First International and through the work of Ferdinand Lassalle and others, Marx's ideas began to gain primacy in European socialist and radical thought. This primacy was greatly furthered with the publication of the first volume of Das Kapital (Vol. I, 1867, tr. 1886; Vol. II—III, ed. by Engels, 1885—94; tr. 1907—9). The manuscript for the fourth volume was edited by Karl Kautsky and published as Theorien über den Mehrwert (3 parts, 1905—10; tr. of 1st part, A History of Economic Theories, 1952). A monumental work, Das Kapital provided a thorough exposition of Marxism and became the foundation of international socialism.\n\nAs Marx's reputation spread, so too did public fear of him. He insisted on authoritarian sway within the International, and finally, after controversy with Mikhail Bakunin, virtually destroyed the International for fear of losing control over its direction. He remained the prophet of socialism and was often consulted by the various socialist party leaders. His role was frequently that of urging more hard-minded policies, further removed from bourgeois embellishments; The Gotha Program (1891, tr. 1922), a critique, illustrates this position. The complexity and vituperation of this polemic characterize much of Marx's prose. In his last years Marx's great intellectual vigor continued unabated. The importance of his dialectical method and of his theories goes far beyond their immense political influence; many scholars consider him a great economic theoretician and the founder of economic history and sociology.
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According to wikipedia:\n\nCommunism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownership of the means of production.  It can be classified as a branch of the broader socialist movement.\n\nSocialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control.  This control may be either direct—exercised through popular collectives such as workers' councils—or it may be indirect—exercised on behalf of the people by the state.
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First to clarify Marx invented communism as an operationally defined philosophical ideology.\nWhile I cannot tell you who the first communist was it wasn't Jesus. The Essenes (a sect of Judaism) were in existence before Jesus. They lived a communal life in the wilderness of Israel. SOme scholars have suggested that John the Baptist was an Essene. Regardless John seems to have lived in a communist settlement in the desert when Jesus came to be baptized by him. Thus, John is an earlier communist than Jesus.
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According to Marx, Socialism is the stage between Capitalism and Communism in which goods and salary are not equal for everyone, unlike the perfect communist society. \n\nFor instance, Mark works on a corn farm. Joe works as a doctor. In a capitalist society, the demand for doctors is much higher than for individuals to work on a farm, so Joe makes much more money than Mark. \n\nIn a communist society, Mark and Joe make the same amount of money, and get the same amount of material goods despite what they do.\n\nIn a socialist society, Joe will still make more money than Mark, but the material goods and services available to both will be the same.
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I could be wrong but I think Maoism is the term use to define Chinese Communism. I don't think there is a difference.\n\nLooked it up I was right\n\nMaoism or Mao Zedong Thought is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of the Chinese communist Mao Zedong.