Communism socialism call it what you like

«Ain’t I Right» lyrics

Marty Robbins Lyrics

You came down to this southern town last summer
To show the folks a brand new way of life
But all you’ve shown the folks around here is trouble
And you’ve only added misery to their strife
Your concern is not to help the people
And I’ll say again, though it’s been often said
Your concern is just to bring discomfort, my friend
And your policy is just a little red

Now, ain’t I right (ain’t he right)
(ain’t he right)

It matters not to you how people suffer
And should they, you’d consider that a gain
You bring a lot of trouble to the town and then you leave
That’s part of your Communistic game
I detect a little Communism
I can see it in the things ya do
Communism, socialism call it what you like
There’s very little difference in the two

Now, ain’t I right (ain’t he right)
(ain’t he right)

Your followers sometimes have been a bearded, hatless bunch
There’s even been a minister or two
A priest, a nun, a rabbi and an educated man
Have listened and been taken in by you
Aw, the country’s full of two-faced politicians
Who encourage you with words that go like this
Burn your draft card if you like, it’s good to disagree
That’s a get aquainted Communistic kiss

Now, ain’t I right (ain’t he right)
(ain’t he right)

One politician said it would be nice to send some blood
And help the enemy in Vietnam
That’s what he says, here’s what I say
Let’s just keep the blood
Instead let’s send that politician man
Let’s rid the country of the politicians,
Who call us tramps, that march out in our streets
Protesting those who wanna fight for freedom, my friend
This kind of leader makes our country weak

Now, ain’t I right (ain’t he right)
(ain’t he right)

Let’s look and find the strong and able leaders
It’s time we found just how our neighbours stand
If we’re to win this war with Communism
Let’s fight it here as well as Vietnam
Let’s rise as one and meet our obligations
So Communistic boots will never trod
Across the fields of freedom that were given to us
With the blessing of our great almighty God
Across the fields of freedom that were given to us
With the blessing of our great almighty God

О чем эта песенка? (на английском)

You came down to this southern town last summer
To show the folks a brand new way of life
But all you’ve shown the folks around here is trouble
And you’ve only added misery to their strife
Your concern is not to help the people
And I’ll say again, though it’s been often said
Your concern is just to bring discomfort, my friend
And your policy is just a little red

Ты пришел в этот южный город прошлым летом
Показать жителям новый способ жизни
Но все, что ты показал народу вокруг это проблема
И ты только добавил несчастье к их борьбе
Тебя волнует не помощь людям
И снова я скажу, хотя об этом часто говорится
Твоя забота просто внести дискомфорт, мой друг
И твои принципы просто немного красны

Now, ain’t I right (ain’t he right)
(ain’t he right)

Теперь, разве я неправ?

It matters not to you how people suffer
And should they, you’d consider that a gain
You bring a lot of trouble to the town and then you leave
That’s part of your Communistic game
I detect a little Communisim
I can see it in the things ya do
Communisim, socialism call it what you like
There’s very little difference in the two

И для тебя важно не то, как люди страдают
И должны ли они вообще, ты считаешь только плюсом
Ты принес много проблем городу и затем ты уходишь
Это часть твоей коммунистической игры
Я обнаружил маленький коммунизм
Я вижу его в тех вещах, что ты делаешь
Коммунизм, социализм, называй их как хочешь
Вот только между ними очень небольшое различие

Your followers sometimes have been a bearded, hatless bunch
There’s even been a minister or two
A priest, a nun, a rabbi and an educated man
Have listened and been taken in by you
Aw, the country’s full of two-faced politicians
Who encourage you with words that go like this
Burn your draft card if you like, it’s good to disagree
That’s a get aquainted Communistic kiss

One politician said it would be nice to send some blood
And help the enemy in Vietnam
That’s what he says, here’s what I say
Let’s just keep the blood
Instead let’s send that politician man
Let’s rid the country of the politicians,
Who call us tramps, that march out in our streets
Protesting those who wanna fight for freedom, my friend
This kind of leader makes our country weak

Один политик сказал, что было бы хорошо отправить немного крови
И помочь врагу во Вьетнаме
Это то, что сказал он, а вот что скажу я
Давайте сохраним кровь
А вместо этого отправим политиков
Давайте избавим страну от политиков
Которые называют нас бродягами, которые маршируют по нашим улицам
Простуя против тех, кто хочет бороться за свободу, мой друг
Такой тип лидера ослабляет нашу страну

Let’s look and find the strong and able leaders
It’s time we found just how our neighbours stand
If we’re to win this war with Communism
Let’s fight it here as well as Vietman
Let’s rise as one and meet our obligations
So Communistic boots will never trod
Across the fields of freedom that were given to us
With the blessing of our great almighty God
Across the fields of freedom that were given to us
With the blessing of our great almighty God

Послушай, детка,
Горы недостаточно высоки,
Долина недостаточно низка,
Река недостаточно широка, детка

Если я нужен тебе, позови меня,
Неважно, где ты находишься,
Неважно, как ты далеко (не волнуйся, детка)
Просто позови меня по имени,
И я поспешу к тебе,
Тебе не стоит волноваться

Потому что, детка,
Горы недостаточно высоки,
Долина недостаточно низка,
Река недостаточно широка,
Чтобы не дать мне добраться до тебя, детка

Запомни этот день, когда
Я отпускаю тебя на свободу,
Я говорил тебе,
Ты всегда можешь рассчитывать на меня, дорогая,
С того дня, как я дал обет,
Я буду там, где ты этого захочешь,
Как-нибудь, при любых обстоятельствах

Потому что, детка,
Горы недостаточно высоки,
Долина недостаточно низка,
Река недостаточно широка,
Чтобы не дать мне добраться до тебя, детка

О нет, дорогая,
Ни ветер, ни дождь,
Ни весь холод зимы
Не сможет остановить меня, детка (нет нет детка)
Потому что ты моя цель,
Если ты когда-нибудь попадешь в беду,
Я примчусь к тебе скорее,
Просто дай мне знать, о детка

Моя любовь жива
В моем сердце,
Хоть нас разделяют мили,
Если тебе когда-нибудь понадобится помощь,
Я примчусь к тебе скорее,
Так быстро, насколько смогу

Неужели ты не знаешь, что
Горы недостаточно высоки,
Долина недостаточно низка,
Река недостаточно широка,
Чтобы не дать мне добраться до тебя, детка

Неужели ты не знаешь, что
Горы недостаточно высоки,
Долина недостаточно низка,
Река недостаточно широка,
Горы недостаточно высоки,
Долина недостаточно низка

Socialism vs Communism

Socialism is commonly regarded as an economic system that seeks to achieve equality among members of society. Communism, on the other hand, is both an economic system that seeks equality among members of society and a political ideology that advocates a classless and stateless society and rejects religion. It is regarded as a more extreme form of socialism.

Socialism and communism both adhere to the principle that the resources of the economy should be collectively owned by the public and controlled by a central organization. They differ, however, in the management and control of the economy. In socialism, the people themselves decide through communes or popularly elected councils on how the economy should work. This makes socialism a liberal system because majority of the people have a say on how the economy should be run. Communism, on the other hand, controls its economy through a single authoritarian party. It is thus characterized as conservative because the economy functions based on the decisions of a few.

The views of socialism and communism also differ in the distribution of wealth produced by the economy. Socialism supports the view that the goods and services produced should be dispensed based on the productivity of an individual. In contrast, communism believes that the wealth should be shared by the masses based on the needs of the individual.

There are two kinds of properties in socialism: (1) personal property that an individual can own and enjoy; and (2) industrial property that is dedicated for the use of producing society’s goods. Individuals, for example, can keep their digital cameras but cannot retain a factory that produces digital cameras. While personal properties can be kept, socialists make sure, however, that no private property will be used as an instrument for oppression and exploitation. In comparison, communism treats all goods and services as public property to be used and enjoyed by the entire populace.

Finally, socialism and communism differ in their views on capitalism. Socialists regard capitalism as a threat to equality and public interest. They believe, however, that there is no need to eliminate the capitalist class because it can be used as a good instrument in the transition to socialism as long as it is properly controlled. Socialists also believe that capitalism can exist in a socialist state and vice versa. From the point of view of the communists, capitalism must to be destroyed totally in order to give way to a classless society.

1. Socialism is an economic system while communism is both an economic and political system.
2. In socialism, the resources of the economy are managed and controlled by the people themselves through communes or councils while in communism, management and control rest on a few people in a single authoritarian party.
3. Socialists distribute wealth to the people based on an individual’s productive efforts while communists farm out wealth based on an individual’s needs.
4. Socialists can own personal properties while communists can not.
5. Socialism allows capitalism to exist in its midst while communism seeks to get rid of capitalism.

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104 Comments

Actually, the definition of communism here is wrong. Marxist communism, the ORIGINAL communism, says in the Communist Manifesto that the “distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property”. He means that the “hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned” property should not be abolished, but the type of property that creates CAPITAL, “that kind of property which exploits wage-labor, which cannon increase except upon condition of begetting a new supply of wage-labor for fresh exploitation”. Capital should be a collective product and not a personal property. It is the result of many people working together, but as Marx saw it, it was controlled by the bourgeois and they received the benefits.
He wrote to liberate the working class that was stuck under the bourgeois and barely made enough to sustain themselves. He wanted to put the means of production into the hands of the workers, not the elite bourgeoisie class.

One of the difficulties in writing an article like this is determining how much to talk about communism in theory or as originally defined, and the way it has been implemented in reality. You say the definition of communism is wrong, but the article is more of a description of governments who had or do call themselves communist rather than a definition.

Even then, I’m not sure that there is any communist government still around that doesn’t allow some private ownership.

You forgot to mention the millions of their own citizens that communist governments have murdered because they resisted having their property seized.

Uh, this is just wrong. Communism is only an economical system, not a political system. There can be many different types of communism, including anarcho-communism. (where there’s a democracy, but no government) Communism doesn’t need to have an authoritarian government. Countries like China, Russia, Cuba, and North Korea are all examples of communism under one type of government. Authoritarian. And that’s why they are not good examples. Capitalists state many different kinds of capitalism to prove that capitalism is successful, and yet communism is failed because “Russia, Cuba, North Korea, and China aren’t doing well.”
I’ll say this one more time. THERE CAN BE MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF COMMUNISM. Of course, no one’s tried them, most likely because “Communism failed.” Capitalism has failed before, and they come up with a new way of capitalism. One last thing. Communism is only an economical system and can have many different types of political systems. Anyways, don’t judge a book by its cover. Aka: Don’t judge communism because one form of the political system failed.

I’m not a communist, and I support capitalism. I may be a bit biased towards communism, because everyone is so misinformed about it. I probably left the main idea of what I was trying to say behind, so here it is, one last time. Communism doesn’t control its economy through a single authoritarian party, that’s only one type of communism, and there are many others that haven’t been tried yet. So please don’t go out misinforming people.

Capitalism has never failed and never will.

The Great Depression and the Great Recession would say otherwise.

But with the great depression and recession a capitalist society self corrects.

Rich, you are correct, in my opinion. In America today, it appears that majority of the population is middle to lower class, and struggle to make ends meet. Victims of a self serving ruling class, are blamed for its failures, and expected to be grateful for the opportunity to clean up a rich pricks feces off of the toilet of his fancy hotel room, expected to smile graciously when publicly humiliated, and to pretend that our personal freedoms aren’t slowly disappearing. Of course, these experiences are largely related to poor management which extends from poor government. Capitalism has potential to be useful only as an extension to socialism. Unfortunately, in socialism, we are also vulnerable to allowing lazy and ignorant people to claim equality to hard working and well informed individuals. “My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Which is another bastard child of poor leadership, poor management and poor government. When money rules, the actual “rules” of socialism and basic humanism are merely illusions.

I very much appreciate your response. I have always favored capitalism tempered by Christianity to minimize the impact of avarice. That view is certainly not supported by many.

The opposite is true. Socialism can only work with a small population. Example, Iceland.
Will never work large scale.

Rich while I’m a total consumerist, I agree with you 100%. I’m 67 now and fought the in the Cold War for 23 years and love my country. You are right that’s why we had our two generations of glory and have declined ever since. I hope someone smart like you vines up with a good solution and I apologize for my part in destroying our world.

So, Angel250, I gather then that the many forms of Communism not yet tried, as you describe, could really be considered “theoretical forms” of Communism?

True. This post was either biased or misinformed. Your comment is the most amazing summary of communism I’ve seen, and unlike you, I am a communist.

Not Russia, USSR. get your facts right. You also forgot to mention Vietnam. Finally the best way to understand the political and economical systems of those countries, is to stay and work there for a while.

Tell me, how do you have a country, Communist or Socialist or any other, that is not authoritarian?

Wasteland, every government has performed atrocities. No one is exempt. Something about stones in a glass house!

Then the article should say that. On one hand it seems to talk about socialism in theory (because socialism in practice is not as described) and then compares it to communism in practice. (And frankly, even that is being too kind.)

no the definition is incorrect

What Socialism or Communism believe or wish for is unimportant the end the same. A few incompetent people controlling every aspect of the peoples life’s. That only care about filling their own pockets & staying in power for as long as possible with little to no incentive too care what happens to everyone else. Absolute power corrupts absolutely always has! That’s why it has always failed miserably everywhere it has been tried. The majority always suffers greatly just look at history.

You republicans are so god damn stupid you have no F.ing idea what your talking about!!

Thank you for you intellectual Democratic feedback. Come back when you pay the taxes you work for and the ones you dont. While youre at it, become a degree holder. Even then, raise a proper family without getting divorced for once. On top of that, become educated in a subject such as this.

LOL, I had to click “Reply” just to say, “+1”.

What’s wrong with food safety regulations?

The amount of logical fallacies and assumptions made in this single post is astounding. I have no idea how he fit it all in such a tight space.

It just goes to show that neither of you know how to conduct yourselves properly. Just insulting each other back and forth with your preconceived assumptions of one another isn’t a way to argue your point. Now if you want to perpetuate the image that you are uninformed and uneducated on the matter, you can continue to make replies and comments like these. Anyone with half a brain will pay you no attention.

And yet, here you are, paying them attention. 🙂

I was adding my plus one to Tim’s comment

I was adding my plus one to Tim’s comment, not to the one that came after…

spelling on there is their… voice to text again….

Wotta puffed up cunt you are shade.

Why would you call or use that c word on social news. Asshol

So all the Republican friends I have aren’t divorced and have degrees……
I have a degree, but there are some that I personally know who have degrees and are divorced and making barely surviving.
So don’t be so quick to judge we are all hypocritics. Now go do something nice for someone and be a blessing.

Shade, you’re to harsh. Done all that and others will learn to.

who do you want capital aligned with, the creative and productive or the politically well connected and bureaucrats? That is ultimately the choice. Which alignment choices has the best chance of being based on competence? Capital is present in all of these systems. The choice is truly with whom to align the capital.

Well done, you have managed to realise there is a problem but you’ve totally misunderstood that problem. You’re government are not communist, they are capitalist, and they are so shamefully right wing yet you’re solution is that they become moreso. I don’t think you really understand the political system at all, why don’t you get yourself out of the US and see how the rest of the world succeed or fail. Check Denmark for example, possibly the most egalitarian country on the planet, and not a T party nazi in site.

The rest of the world is succeeding through Capitalism. Once Japan, the Four Asian Tigers, China, India, and Brazil switched to a more Capitalist economy they began to develop. On the other hand, Europe is collapsing because of its expensive welfare state and drift towards Socialism.

You talk about Denmark? Denmark and the rest of the Scandinavian countries are projected to decline the most over the next 50 years. It is a fact — their economies will slow down drastically and much of the world will surpass them. So maybe the current generation is living well, but the future is looking bleak. The same is true for all of Europe. First world and egalitarian now… third world in the next century.

Europeans have become too complacent and are wasting all of their wealth and resources. But what about the future? They are not thinking ahead. The modern generation may be able to get away with working relatively few hours, having many vacation days, years off for maternity leave, a young retirement age, universal healthcare, and favorable unemployment benefits, but the next generation will not. The privileges Europeans currently enjoy cost money and they are not a recipe for staying competitive in this global world. We are seeing the results with what has been happening in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy etc over the last few years. European economies are not growing, they are contracting. Capitalist economies are growing.

Your analysis of Europe is all over the map. I don’t even know where to begin. First of all, the stated outcome of a prediction cannot be a fact until it has already happened. Second, how is Europe “wasting all their resources?” Do you even really know what’s going on over there? Or are you just making more assumptions based on media nonsense you hear over here?

China changed their economic policy in 1979 and the economy didn’t improve until the 90s. Therefore the problem was not Socialism or Communism.

Totally wrong, Leo.
Denmark’s economy have, in the first month of 2015, grown the GDP of 0.3%. Thats massive, and means it’s getting richer and richer.

A welfare state might, in your eyes, be shit. But, in fact, it isn’t. To pay 2000$ for a broken leg, thats shit. And to pay hundreds of thousands for your child to be studying, is also shit.

What’s more important, pal, your cherished economic growth or standard of living. China still has a terrible standard of living under the ultimate capitalist society- free market but no human rights. Countries in Europe like in Scandinavia are very rich and have welfare states, and have great standards of living. I think those Scandinavian countries are the bee’s knees.

Don’t disagree with your sentiments about the benefits of the socialist policies for the citizens of countries like Denmark.

One problem with China’s current model is that the sheer size of their population (India’s too) REQUIRES that their “middle class” stays infinitesimally small and their upper class stays even smaller.

1.6 (or so billion people) broadly enjoying a middle class style of living is a practical impossibility on so many levels.

The current version of capitalism we’re experiencing here in the US is bullshite. 92% of all the new wealth generated in this economy since the Great Recession has gone to the elite here.

Wages have stayed stagnant for 40 years.

That is also going to be an impossible paradigm to sustain also.

I agree with your line of thinking, but China’s middle class is around 23% vs. India ‘s which is around 3% now. but of course neither middle class is the same as that of the US; in the same way that the Canadian middle class is different from America’s. Just a thought.

Wow Leo… you forgot to take into account that a “growing” economy as you put it, puts pressure on selling more all the time (consumerism first) and that THAT is the problem. Selling more means people have to buy more and we need to thus produce more… which in turn means extract more from the earth and probably throw away more… the scandinavian countries that you mentionned understand that and live accordingly. Maybe a bit of travelling might do you good.

Also… just a friendly reminder. Your current president has gone bankrupt about… well lets not be mean here and actually show a number. You can wiki it yourself. But again, travelling might be informative to you in many ways. I have learned many langages on my own (including English) and found that curiosity and open mindedness are often the remedy to preconceived notions we get from people that were not worried about the future of this planet. Like the boomers that are currently teaching at Yale and Harvard. You could flatter yourself for being a college educated male. But until you have seen something else, maybe you should not post your opinions on political web sites. Cause they are not really your opinions. They are the opinions of your teachers. I bid you a good one…

Lived in Europe for many years and I know they have looked ahead for the solution, and it will be final.

There is very difficult adopt the ideology of communism … Socialism is better or easy to handel

Upon dropping comment, just be aware of giving supporting details that would make it more clear for other readers, I think that would be more beneficial.

Good discussion except where those on the left start cursing. The Left in the US are increasingly hostile, not toward all religion but especially toward Christianity. It would seem that truth must be destroyed on the way to completing the lie. We see Russia (USSR) as the only apparent form of communism, but that is only how this deadly foolishness reared it’s head in one century — it will likely take on newer, and hopefully subtler nuances in this century. But those states which most strongly embrace capitalism will show great success. The US is clearly on a dead end path in this cycle.

The left’s “hostility” as you put it, towards Christianity is a direct result of the lies, hypocrisy, and misrepresentation of the ideals Christ taught being spewed by the right wing fanatics that have highjacked that religion.

There is direct references in the constitution concerning the freedom of religion and the separation between church and state.

Christ said give unto Ceaser what is Ceaser’s and give to god what is god’s.

The prosperity gospel that is the love child of right wing big money backers/politicians & the evangelical church is absurd.

Christ said that it was the responsibility of those with more to care for and show compassion to the sick, the hungry, the poor while the Republican “theologians” claim that god favor’s the rich.

Christ said it would be easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than a rich man to pass through the gates of heaven.

He also warned of false prophets.

Please answer me this questions…. Who would Jesus bomb? How many women would Jesus grab by the pussy? Which poor, disenfranchised and marginalized group would Jesus take from to give millionaires, billionaires and multi-billion dollar multinational corporations yet another tax cut?

Michael Payne that was AMAZING.

Couldn’t have said it any better myself.

Michael, before you get too high on your apparent moral superiority, let’s not forget that Bill Clinton and other Democrats claim to be Christians while behaving in the way you want to believe that only Republicans behave. Many more Democrats who may NOT claim to be Christians have also recently been brought down by their behavior. Maybe you think this is OK because at least they aren’t hypocrites, but it does not make their behavior any less reprehensible.

Your dark view of those who disagree with you politically seems to have given you a dark view of a faith that teaches what you seem to want. For you to imply that there is something virtuous about being hostile toward Christianity is wrong.

So if these conservatives think we’ve turned into a socialist or communist country, then why don’t the socialists and communist think so? You people make so many of us cringe at how impressionable and just blatantly retarded you are because of your paranoid and hateful media/religion.

This is from frontpagemag.com. If you don’t like the source there are numerous others if you care to look.
“Erwin Marquit, a member of the International Department of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), recently told a conference of communist political parties from around the world that communists in the U.S did not run their own candidate for president on November 6 because they worked within the Democratic Party for the reelection of Barack Obama and the victories of “progressive” Democrats to Congress.

“The Communist Party USA not only welcomes the reelection of President Barack Obama, but actively engaged in the electoral campaign for his reelection and for the election of many Democratic Party congressional candidates,” Marquit declared at the conference, hosted by the Lebanese Communist Party.

Under Obama, he said, “…we have been forming Party clubs in states in which we previously had very few or even no members. This influx of new members led us to have a national Party school earlier this year to acquaint new members with the Marxist-Leninist orientation of the Party.””

I understand where your comment is coming from, but to suggest that Barack Obama is a communist because he is supported by the communist party is the same line of reasoning used to say that Donald Trump is a racist because he is supported by the KKK.

Just because someone is endorsed by a certain group does not imply that they [the endorsed person] agree with the endorsement, nor does it imply that they agree with the ideals and ideologies of the endorsing group.

Seriously just used a derogatory word against a group of people while defending a government you feel is better for all people with the principle that all are created equal.

Your statement: “You people make so many of us cringe at how impressionable and just blatantly retarded …”

Who is using hateful speech?

The rest of it was pretty low as well, but before you say others are hateful you may want to check yourself.

Cindy, it is quite obvious that you do not understand the basic concepts of satire… Retard.

As someone who dabbled a lot with red politics in my younger days (I currently lean libertarian), this article is clearly written by a socialist who is essentially enforcing the anti-communist social stigma, in order to potentially prop up the view of socialism in the eye of the reader.

This article is talking about socialism, and only socialism. It’s attempting to take all the bad about socialism, and separating it as “communism”, while keeping what the author considers as the good traits. As the USSR, China, and Cuba, which seems to be the inspiration for what the article refers to as communist, were really just socialist states based to varying degrees on Marxism.

The key point in communism is that it’s intended to be stateless – with the people themselves running their own
show. Socialism is, according to Marx, the transitional state in which the government takes control of all means of production. This can be, and has been, quite harsh, despite this article’s attempt to paint it as a democratic paradise. While perhaps that’s true in some Scandinavian countries that are held up as examples, it certainly wasn’t true in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Despite almost universally being referred to as communist in the west, the Soviets were well versed in Karl Marx’s writings, and were very self-aware that they were just that in-between transitional state on the way to the greater, yet unrealized, ideal.

As I’ve read the discussion here, it’s been said he’s talking about “communism in practice and not communism in theory”, however, communism really only exists as a theory outside of very minor examples, usually small and localized, such as hippie communes in the sixties, and their modern successors. And yet, socialism is presented fully in it’s ideal form. Communism, to me, has always seemed to have more in common with anarchism, than socialism.

Here’s an example that represents my problem with this whole article:

“3. Socialists distribute wealth to the people based on an individual’s productive efforts while communists farm out wealth based on an individual’s needs.”

Socialist “distribute” based on effort. Communists “farm out” based on needs. The word choice is very telling of the author’s personal bias. There is no difference in meaning here.

P.S. Communism doesn’t have to reject religion, Marx himself didn’t even believe this. If you want to spit out the famous quote, I would recommend pondering the medicinal use of opiates during Marx’s time. Religion can in fact be the catalyst for the formation of communistic societies. (See Jonestown)

Also, based on paragraph two, I question if the author even understands the terms “liberal” and “conservative”.

I recommend researching these ideologies elsewhere.

I think you haven’t studied the true principle of Marxism.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/communism?q=communism this is just an outline concept of communism.

On the other hand, those that attempt to dodge the consequences of a Communist Transformation by emigrating will have their lands rearranged and
took.

This whole thing is wrong. Please stop pretending you know what you’re talking about, because you clearly don’t.

Capitalism, socialism, and communism are all modes of producing and distributing goods and services, each successively replacing the former when the former has exhausted its potential and becomes irrelevant to circumstances. Each system is like a software upgrade to the economy.

Under capitalism, goods and services become produced on a social basis, requiring a more and more intertwined network of workers to collaborate to produce goods on a mass scale. Under feudalism, which preceded capitalism, all goods were the products of an individual, but under capitalism, no individual can claim to be the sole producer of any good. How these goods and services are in turn distributed remains individualistic, however, with a more or less anarchistic marketplace exacerbating the contradictions between those who own the means of production (the 1%) and those who do not (the 99%).

Under socialism, goods and services become increasingly socially produced, and now socially distributed. All the means of production gradually become public property. Goods that are scarce and competitive remain distributed on an individual basis; goods that are no longer scarce are distributed on a social basis, with free access for the individual.

Under communism, all goods and services are socially distributed, with free access for the individual to everything produced. “From each according to one’s means, to each according to one’s needs.”

I believe communism also involves the destruction of government, as it is a form of oppression.

Now THAT was a good understanding and explaning. Thank you Micheal Leone.

“Communism, on the other hand, controls its economy through a single authoritarian party. It is thus characterized as conservative because the economy functions based on the decisions of a few.”
You clearly have no clue what conservatism is. Conservatism is not characterized by how many (or few) people are involved in the decision making process. By that logic a Dictatorship or a Kingdom would be the ultimate for of conservatism due to decisions being made by only 1 individual.

Let me correct your statements, article, and let me explain why.

1. Socialism is an economic system while communism is both an economic and political system.

Correct statement: 1. Communism and Socialism are both economic systems.

Reason: There can be many different types of government running a Communist or Socialist country. There isn’t just one form of government for Communism, and there isn’t just one form of government for Socialism.

2. In socialism, the resources of the economy are managed and controlled by the people themselves through communes or councils while in communism, management and control rest on a few people in a single authoritarian party.

Correct statement: 2. In socialism and communism, the resources of the economy are managed and controlled by the people themselves, although in communism, a single authoritarian party might take over, and then the management and control would rest on only a few people.

Reason: In communism there can be many types of government. There’s not one certain government for communism.

3. Socialists distribute wealth to the people based on an individual’s productive efforts while communists farm out wealth based on an individual’s needs.

Correct Statement: Socialists distribute wealth to the people based on an individual’s productive efforts, and communists distribute wealth to everyone according to their needs. There are no social classes. Everyone is equal in communism.

Reason: I felt like the statement’s words needed to be changed a bit, to phrase it more correctly.

4. Socialists can own personal properties while communists can not.

Correct Statement: Socialists and Communists can own certain types of personal properties

Reason: Communists can own certain types personal properties, just not things like factories, which could oppress the workers.

5. Socialism allows capitalism to exist in its midst while communism seeks to get rid of capitalism.

Correct Statement: Socialism allows capitalism to exist in its midst while communism isn’t able to work perfectly without everywhere in the world being communist. (Notice how I said perfectly. Communism could still work, but not as well)

Reason: This statement is true enough, because communism won’t work with capitalism still around. The whole world would need to be communist.

The statement that Communism is a conservative view is completely WRONG! The idea of government run control and less freedom of the people is a an obvious liberal way of thinking. Freedom of the people and less government control is conservative, regardless of the numbers in the government. The number is irrelevant, the control and who has it is the key.

Conservatives want govt. out of our lives except in your bedroom where they want to decide who you can marry.

They want to the govt. to decide what a woman can do with her body. They want to abolish abortion and then not take care of the unwanted babies. Double standard.

They want to fight wars with YOUR children at the front lines and not theirs.

They are against religion mixing with politics unless it’s Christianity.

They are Christians but failed the read Mathew 19:21: “If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” or Mark 10:25 “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Do they have a different bible then the rest of us?

What we have today is a society breaking free of the brainwashing from the past. We were able to break through due to their greediness. That will be their ultimate demise. The masses in this country are becoming more and more impoverished. Because of this they are questioning everything they have been taught. The conservative party will ultimately fail if they continue to not address the wealth inequality. Of course this excludes the delusional people of the south. They will still be voting republican even after the party has dissolved. These are the same people that are building and “Ark Encounter”. Enough said.

That was beautifull Steve. I’m so sorry it did’nt convince people. But the democrats made the wrong choice with Hillary. They should’ve gone with Bernie. He was the only logical antidote to Trump. Now you guys are stuck with either him or, in the odd chance he gets impeached, Pence… good luck with all that.

Sorry my previous comment was meant for “oneeyeopened”

OneEyeOpen, can you please provide a list of Democrats who have sold all of their possessions and given it to the poor? Bernie? Gore? Schumer? Pelosi? The Clintons? The Clintons did not become multi-millionaires until they became “servants of the people”. But they Democrats are not greedy?

And while you are coming up with this list, please provide a second list of Democrat Presidents who did not send our sons (and daughters) into battle.

The problem is that you can say liberal people believe things of that nature, but that has changed in the last decade to believe what they believe or be condemned. They are becoming more of a totalitarian party looking for a dictator with which to rule. I could give example after example of how liberals today want to silence people by any means necessary, and deceive people into thinking that individualism and free thinking is inherently evil. They want people to step in line…or else. That my friend is socialism.

Communism, Capitalism, Socialism. What we have here in the US is Fascism. I lean more left than right. Here are the things I see:

America is no longer Capitalistic.
America is not communist.
America has social programs that work well but is not socialist.
Socialism allows for citizens to own personal property while capitalism does not.
Historic examples of socialism are examples of a dictator taking over and controlling the capital (economy) which is the opposite of democratic socialism.
Germany has a mixture of capitalism and socialism. This is the strongest country in the EU. It needs to be used as an example where socialistic policies have worked well. We don’t see many German immigrants in this country. One has to ask Why? I have a good idea after talking to countless Germans on the subject. They think we are fools and they love their system. If they were poor Trump would fighting to keep them out of the US also.

Capitalism is the greatest system of building wealth on the planet! However, after it’s done it’s job of taking a 3rd world nation out of poverty it has a big problem of instability as well as huge wealth inequality to deal with like here in the US. It models the game of Monopoly. In the beginning of the game all players have equal opportunity until one player builds the first Monopoly. Once this occurs the other players try to follow suit. However, they will eventually fall victim to one player who will eventually control all the capital. At this point the game is over unless the players keep borrowing from the bank to stay in the game. Problem is they will eventually become bankrupt.

We are at the same point here in the US. Most industries or market sectors have become monopolized. “Too big to Fail” has become the norm. This has led to Fascism(merger of corporate and political powers). We have all become enslaved and are surviving on borrowed money. Our political system as well as economic system is rigged in favor of the few elite. While all you conservatives are fighting the idea of socialism/communism you are being robbed and manipulated by the wealthy that don’t want to give up their power. Instead of a Hitler or Putin dictating our lives we have corporate powers doing it. At least under socialism our health isn’t held for ransom like it is now.

Looking at this election we can see that conservatives as well as liberals agree that most of the candidates including Hitlery Clinton represent these elite. The candidates that don’t seem to are Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Their popularity shows the truth. The country needs a nice mix of Capitalism/Socialism functioning under a true democracy. That’s what will work. Greed is our number one enemy.

I would like to also add that I am independently wealthy and not looking for handouts. I earned every cent through education and hard work. That being said I think most Americans are getting the shaft and the millennials are really screwed!! I am so glad I was born when I was to have a chance at the American Dream instead of the American Mirage of debt indentured servitude. Something has to be done. We need a new system here. I haven’t heard one plan from any republican from any debate except build walls to keep Mexicans out. We can’t live on the wages these Mexicans receive so why are they the target? I live in Az and can say the Mexicans are a true asset. They are hard working, family orientated christian people. They are the prime example of what republicans have been spewing out over the last decade. This is a distraction from the real issue of wealth inequality which is the end result of Capitalism. At least the liberals are trying to come up with plans. Whether you agree with them or not they HAVE a plan. If a repug had just one idea or plan I would consider voting for one. They don’t. I will give Trump credit for saying that we need to bring back the jobs. That’s the only thing he said that wasn’t counter productive to our progress. Trickle down economics has failed. More tax breaks for the wealthy will not make things better. These are old tried ideas and need to be put to rest!

Communism VS Socialism VS Fascism VS Capitalism Table / Chart

There are a lot of different isms in this day and age. Most people seem to think each one is distinct and that some are better than others. I wanted to create a table to show that while there are some differences between all these isms, there are also a lot of similarities. Have a look.

Please understand that this table can’t be 100% accurate. There are just too many variables. But what it will do is give you a pretty good understanding of what to expect from each one. This obviously leans towards my opinion but I’m not pulling this opinion out of a magic hat. This is gathered from reading many history books and talking with educated people.

I hope it is beginning to become clear what is going on here. Communism, Socialism and Fascism ARE ALL THE SAME. The subtle differences between them are minor things that make hardly any difference. It’s like me asking you whether you would like to die by lethal injection or by having your head cut off. Either way you’re dead. Don’t let the process towards dictatorial, totalitarian tyranny fool you. In the end it is tyranny.

Capitalism is the best form of government we have experienced on earth so far because it is in the closest alignment with the laws of the universe and truth. It mirrors openness and freedom. It advocates responsibility and integrity. We should never forget just how important such virtues are.

So next time you hear that capitalism has failed you may want to recheck the facts. Capitalism doesn’t exist. Capitalism hasn’t existed for at least 100 years. If anything has failed it is clearly socialism and we’re just getting warmed up. The more socialism fails the more power we lose until finally our new dictator will come in and seize our property, rights and freedoms. This is basic history. All it takes is one generation to forget and they will experience it.

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First, I hope it was okay to post my homepage for my blog on here Quinton, and if not please delete it and I will refrain from doing so in the future.

Your post on the types of governments is excellent and one worth posting. I merely refer to all of them as Totalitarianism and our founding fathers typically called it despotism. Basically, either of the two will suffice when conveying a dictatorial style of government in which one individual, family, or state rules all. The political spectrum, which can be seen on my blog
http://www.concernedforliberty.com/blog/?p=55 reveals both ends of government and the course in which it grows. At one end of the spectrum we have anarchy, which represents 100% freedom and 0% government, and on the other end we have totalitarianism, which represents 100% government and 0% freedom. The spectrum depicts government growth on a consistent basis which begins as anarchy and continues to grow until it ultimately reaches totalitarianism. The fact is once any amount of government is established it does not stop growing and will inevitably reach total government. Both the left (Democrats) and right (Republicans) are statists that advocate large government but on different extremes.

Another way to look at it is that there is individualism and collectivism. The collectivists are winning the war currently, and if it keeps up we are doomed to totalitarianism. The collective elite has taken over our education system where they indoctrinate the students by use of propaganda from an overwhelming majority of leftist professors and teachers. This is a powerful weapon for the collectivists, and one which may or may not be overcome. However, the field of economics is one way in which we may be able to overcome the collectivists. This will be done by more students learning the Austrian School of Economics, made famous by such men as Hayek, Mises, Rothbard and Hazelitt. The Austrian school is growing in popularity and rightfully so. I suggest those not familiar with it to study it. The best place to do this is at mises.org which is the school for Austrian Economics with its main campus located at Auburn University.

The best form of government is the Republican form that our founding fathers gave us, yet is proved to not be perfect as it has already been hijacked to cater to the statist left and right. We are now referred to as a democracy which is far from what the founders had in mind, as a matter of fact they said democracy is one of the most dangerous forms of government, where the majority rules with no regard for individual or minority rights. Therefore, 51% will always take away the rights of 49%, which results in a loss of liberty for all. This is no different than mobocracy where the only dissenting vote is the person at the end of the rope.

Our country was meant to be a representative Republic with our constitution installed as a safeguard for our rights. Well, in my opinion one major flaw with our constitution is the fact that it can be amended. However, if it could not be amended then that would be saying it was perfect, which is absurd. I believe it does not really matter what type of government a country has because it will eventually become a dictatorial style of government over time. The only feasible means of preserving our liberty is to vote for candidates who favor smaller government and hope they follow through. This will prolong the end of our freedom by several decades if done on a consistent basis, however eventually the small government leader will be replaced by a large government leader such as we have now. If the large government leader does more damage than the small government leader did good, then we have a problem, and that is what has happened over the last couple centuries. History has shown that governments typically last about 200 years, thus our government is approaching its end.

I don’t really see any way to stop the big machine from growing, but only to slow it down. Personally, the only person I think could buy us some more time is Ron Paul. He advocates smaller government more than any other politician I know of. However, I doubt he will have the chance to be elected since he is unpopular with the Republican party, and I would argue it is because he supports limited government.

Thanks for the great response 🙂

The article you posted is right on. That diagram sums it up nicely. I agree that governments always move towards control, that’s how it has always been. I am pretty much convinced that we will never get it right here on this planet. And if we ever do for a short period of time it will be taken away immediately. That seems to be the dynamics behind this planet.

It will be interesting to see how this thing plays out.

Actually this chart is DEAD WRONG. It is bias and only outlines the benifets of capitalism. Btw of course government moves toward control. That’s the idea, because EVERYONE thinks they know what is best for everyone. It’s natural for people to push their ideals on others. Well not everyone, but the majority. Control can be a good thing when it’s conrolled by the right people. When the people control the controller it’s pretty rare for things to wrong. This has little to do with the article though. People should study the idea of putting a capitalist twist on socialism. qyte7r

sorry am sure i proved your points wrong with figures far below. Only stupid americans could write all thiss stuff, and you wonder why your the laughing stock fo the world. Go focus on improving your education system, you need it.

Yeah. Americans need to focus on their education system. No offense but who is anyone to try and tell America how to be better than the best? They run the world, and will for some time. You say they are the laughing stock of the world? Well, that is until something happens to you where your government cant do anything about it. Then who do you cry to? Oh yeah, that’s right. The most powerful, wealthiest, most prospering, AAA credit rating nation in the world. America. But yeah we should increase our education. or just let other countries pay for that and take their scientists by being able to offer them more money than your country.

Not AAA nemore bro.

first of all you need to learn to spell your the only one thats acting stupid

Says the guy who doesn’t know the difference between your and you’re. I know. spelling lessons all around!

He also missed a much needed comma (,) after spell, and an apostrophe in thats (that’s). Or was he really implying that someone needs to learn how to spell: your the only one that[‘]s acting stupid? At least that’s what can be inferred by the comment.

America would be one of the best places to ever live in if it was communist, fascist is what it has become due to capitalism, lets see communism hmmm free education, housing, health care, well it seems were definitely not living in a communist society doesn’t it. USSR wasn’t a bad place to live and it was MUCH poorer resource wise than the US.

Oh, the bliss of communism, that Utopian worker’s paradise; a form of government so great that the state had to force its citizens to like it.

Improve your English, you need it. 😉

Your link is not working. I would like to see the information you worked on the changes of Capitalism. Please allow me to be enlighten by the work you’ve put into dissecting the changes of our Capitalism. Thanks in advance. Hope to hear from you soon.

Although there are some people who claim the Nazi party was Fascists, I believe they were actually socialists (National Socialists) and would be better placed in the socialism column.

I think your table is on the right track, but you may want to look a little more into economics and understand price controls and find another historical source other than Wikipedia or something like it.

If the Nazis weren’t socialists, why then did they call themselves the National Socialist party?
Why not something like NFP?

I totally agree with everything you stated. As I said, there are lots of ways to look at it and at the end of the day all 3 are pretty much the same thing. Excellent input :).

Here’s why you’re wrong: Nazis (Fascists) are backed by the church and big business. Socialists prefer state-owned business, and are typically secular (anti-organized religion). And in reality, Nazis (Fascists) are capitalists, spawning many billionaires from their wars. Much like the US. Only a derp would say «National socialsts must be socialists. it’s in their title!» Well, genius, so is «nationalist», the majority of the word «Nazi», and it’s the FIRST part of the term, indicating seniority over the «socialist» part.

I agree with everything except Republicans as TRUE CONSERVATIVES are NOT FACISTS! What we see today in America are neoCON Liberals which are Democrats mascarading as Conservatives. There is not difference.

The REAL Republicans of today are the Libertarians

That’s a good way to put it. Thanks 🙂

Total horseshit. What an ass-capitalism is not a form of government. Pea brain.

This fellow did some good work on this chart.

I note the presence of «Jesus» on only the Capitalist column. Glad he gave Him at least an honorable mention. This is probably consistent with the overwhelming presence of Christianity during the formation of our nation. And so, I note that this “change” that we are seeing in our government is first of all “spiritual” and secondly it is economic, social, and political. This is why the Capitalism column has all of the good stuff while the other three columns are replete with strife, misery, and man’s godless attempts to create some kind of utopia without the inclusion of godly precepts.

It is therefore useful to note that «Jesus» is conspicuous by His absence as we descend into a totalitarian New World Order (NOW) where all of the other «isms» on the left side are beginning to dominate. We increasingly ignore our both our U.S. Constitution and our God. Millions of us now realize that the current occupant of the oval office is not even constitutionally qualified to be there. But who cares? Nobody looks at the Constitution anymore, and only a few of us pay any attention to The Creator of the universe anymore.

Notice the word: Socialist.

Democrats are being made out to be Communists.
Republicans are being made out to be Nazi Fascists.

Neither are what they are being made out to be by
an unelected group of elitist who own most of the
television, media and etc.. Without most of us knowing
abiut it!

Too bad the chart is right.

I hope your kidding. cause in case you cant tell who ever produced this piece of shit doesnt even know the defintions of these categories

Well first of all it’s great you took the time to produce this. =)

There are problems with it though. First of all, I don’t think it’s subjective. It is very clear to me that this table was made with a preset opinion in mind, and hence it is slanted a certain way. By that I mean, there is some obvious bias in some of the more opionated sub-headings.

Secondly, it is unclear whether you are describing an ideal state of each idealogy or a state that exists or has existed. By that I mean, are you describing what each idealogy is meant to be in principle or what actually exists. If you are describing in principle, then socialism doesn’t restrict your religion, communism does, where as if you are describing the actual reality, then Capitalism you’ll see there is no such a free market and the economics are controlled by corporations and financial markets, similar to facism. It seems to me that for communism-socialism-facism you described what had happened in the past (which were failures admittedly), where as with capitalism you described a perfect ideal situation ignoring the very obvious failings of capitalism as it actually exists, which again ties in with my first point.

Third, I’m going to have to point out some of the areas where I disagree with this analysis, and why.

This doesn’t exist. The capital required to produce EVERYTHING is controlled by a small number of people, thus entry to the market is severely restricted. Therefore it isn’t free. You can’t just make a product you have an idea for and sell it. Not in ideal capitalism, not neo-capitalism, not in ANY form of capitalism. There is no such thing as free market and there never will be as long as there is any form of economic and societal organisation.

If you mean personal growth as in «social development», yes, under fascism you would be, and historically under socialist and communist regimes, restrictions were placed. But social development under capitalism is curtailed too as we constantly work to please financial markets rather than improving society. Personal growth such as getting an education is limited in capitalism as it requires capital to obtain.

Finally your description of «capitalism»

Law built upon universal principles is practiced by decent, well-educated individuals working on the path of growth. Lesser humans are helped, not enslaved.

I think you’ll find socialists, communists, marxists etc. would ALL use that description! I’m afraid that is incorrect. Capitalism is about making money and doesn’t care who gets hurt. That is why Africa is still in poverty despite being the most materially rich continent, that is why America has one of the highest poverty rates in the developed world.

Thanks for producing this, it certainly is a useful platform for debate, even though I’d would seriously disagree with parts of it.

I totally agree with your points Antispin. It’s right wing propaganda like this that makes it difficult to find legitimate information about these political systems.

As for the ideal of personal growth if you are to look at the coat of an education in America(5000-20,000/year) vs. a semi-socialist country like Canada (3,000-8,000) vs. a (modern) socialist country like Sweden or Denmark (free)then you would be surprised how much more the country seems to value a well educated citizenship

I have not heard any recent plans about Canada or Sweden throwing away their democratic systems to adopt a totalitarian dictatorship, in fact the push towards a more Capitalist economic system in Canada is actually causing more harm than good

More Research and less Bias should have gone into this table

I agree with your points, and while I wouldn’t go as far as to call Sweden or Denmark socialism, as they are social democrats, certainly their more successful models are closer to Christian socialism than America’s capitalist model is.

I also noticed something disturbing under the (incorrect) summary by the original contributor of capitalism as;

«Law built upon universal principles is practiced by decent, well-educated individuals working on the path of growth. Lesser humans are helped, not enslaved.»

I object strongly to the term «lesser humans». How do you define «lesser humans», and surely if you chose to define this, this goes against the word of God as he stated that all men are created equal.

Somewhat amusingly, this is actually a fascist term (untermensch), that Hitler used to describe Jews, Slavs and other non-Germanic races including a considerable amount of Americans. I find it strange that someone who claims to be so staunchly anti-fascist would happily use a key fascist principle as a positive element in their description of capitalism.

I am glad you asked about this as I find it to be quite important. Lesser humans could simply mean children being taught by their parents and teachers. They are inferior to their parents. But I’ll go ahead and take it a step further because I am not so shallow as to think there is no such thing as adults that are childish and inferior.

I am of the opinion that there are indeed lesser humans and people who are inferior to others. This could be looked at a number of ways and taken a number of ways. I am obviously not talking about the BS Nazi or Vatican world domination/slavery/war type of lesser humans BS. They obviously used this view in a perverted way for an attempt at world domination and mass murder, but this is entirely incorrect.

I am talking about superior cultures helping inferior cultures. I am talking about the educated helping the uneducated. I am talking about the experts teaching the students. I am NOT talking about the superior ruling over the inferior with a rod of iron. This is not the mission and a complete perversion of power.

But it is too obvious that certain cultures and people are better than others. This is why America grew and became popular. The culture was far superior to other inferior cultures. Don’t believe me? Why then did everybody immigrate to the new American culture and away from their former culture? When people came to America they adopted a new way of living as framed by the Founding Fathers. These guys were superior humans. They are better than most people. I know it sounds a bit Hitlerish or Fascist, but it is a completely different mission than Hitler and all the dictators. They set out to control. The Founding Fathers set out to free up. After all, George Washington was appalled that many of the colonists would be so inclined to render him the title King George I. The Founding Fathers were smarter, they were more moral and they set out to improve the whole world with one small idea of freedom. Nobody in the world had ever thought of turning on Britain and going against them, but these «rebel» Americans decided it was time to uplift the inferior world with a superior way of living. It’s called evolution and progress. And it is usually much more fun being with people of understanding and direction than those of confusion and slumber.

This is exactly what America has done and it is one of the main reasons on why so many other cultures have come to this nation and IMPROVED their standard and quality of life by adopting these superior ways of life. If America and these inferior people were really such bad guys and bad examples why did people of their own volition pour in year after year? How could people wanting to be part of something not infer that something is going on here that is right? These people got it right and have something to offer. The same way the college professor has got it right and has something to offer his students. Good teachers attract many students, and good teacher nations attract many student nations.

Of course everyone is equal in that we all have a right to live our lives freely and as we so desire, within reason. Of course it is incorrect to manipulate somebody if you are smarter than them. BUT IT IS ALSO NOT INCORRECT TO HELP THEM IF YOU ARE BETTER THAN THEM. If you know how to fish and they don’t, teaching them to fish is not only not a bad thing to do, it is actually the correct thing to do.

I’m not taking about the ADD, weak-minded, surface kind of an approach to the issue. I am digging a bit deeper and past the propaganda. I am doing something completely crazy and off the wall and going against the whole little socialist game. I am forming my own opinion based off the facts and not the facts based off the opinion that was chosen by my manipulators.

We are certainly not equal in many aspects. Some people are just plain stupid. Some people are geniuses. Some people are better at some things and worse at others. Some people are better at more things than other people. Some people just happen to be worse than others at most things. There are varying degrees at every level and to say that there is no such thing as inferior and superior is complete BS and a weak attempt at approaching life honestly or rationally. It makes no sense and never could make any sense to somebody who can just look around and see what’s going on. But I could see why people would fall for it, and I could see why the Nazis would use this exact line of thinking in a perverted way to discredit it.

Michael Jordan is a better basketball player than I am. Is he better than me? Possibly, he obviously is at basketball. Isaac Newton is smarter than most people. Could I ever reach his level? Sure, however, the odd are HIGHLY NOT in my favor. I can deal with that. He was better than me when it comes to intelligence. Jesus was better than me in dealing with other people. He was genuine and compassionate. Can I reach his level? I have my doubts, however, I can almost guarantee he could help an inferior person like myself create a better lifestyle for myself by adopting his lifestyle.

I could really go on with a huge multi-layered post on this one topic, but I suppose I will take the advice of that «equal» master who was by no means superior to us because we are all equal, Jesus:

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

I have a strange suspicion that the dogs are already going to be on me for this one.

I’m afraid all your post has done is validated mine.

Your opinion of what is a «superior» culture is completely subjective. You have decided to impose your own judgement on what is a «superior» culture in your view and call those who follow that culture «superior» to others. This is no different from what Hitler did, no matter how you may choose to rationalise it. He believed that his race was the «superior» culture, and one could argue they were, they were technologically advanced, built great infrastructure, brought great gains to the economy (all at the expense of society of course).

The fact is, whether you be from a poor or a rich background, whether you are educated or not, whether you are black or white, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, gay, straight, etc. we are all HUMAN. And the bible explicitly states that all humans are born equal.

You have placed your own arbitrary divides and judgements on people, and called those who do not live the American way of life «inferior». Now I don’t mind if you do this, you are perfectly entitled to. But please don’t use Christianity to justify this, because Christianity does not justify your principles as much as you would like it to.

You have some good ideas, but regardless of intention, to classify one human as superior over another is a fascist principle. Feel free to window-dress it or rationalise it however you like, but that is what you are doing whether you realise it or not.

People should help others. If I can’t fish and someone teaches me to help? What does that make them? Well it makes them better at fishing. Does it make them a superior human? Well in your view it does, in your view, their life is worth more than mine, in your view, God values that person more than he values me. Now it is fine if you have that view, but good luck finding anything in the Bible backing up the idea that’s it’s okay for you to impose arbitrary judgements on others and pass them off in the name of the Lord.

The fact that people came to America for some unknown reason is not subjective. This is a historical fact. People came to America. If it was worse why did people come to America? Why would you choose to do something that is inferior by your own choice? Why come to America if it is a lesser nation with lesser people?

Of course we are all equal as humans. We are all the same in that we are all part of the human family and growing towards truth. But we simply can’t throw an umbrella term over everyone and say it stops there. Some people choose to be assholes and screw people. Some people choose to do something with their lives. There are tons of variables. I mean, are you saying that Hitler is equal to Jesus? Would you rather follow Hitler or Jesus? Which one would make a better parent? Which one offered more value to the world? If they were both equal, they both would have left the world with the same equal value. These elementary debates are nonsensical and something one would find on the idiot box.

Is not a parent superior to their child? Is this even taking it too far? Is it completely racist and sexist to say that your child is a fool compared to you? You have to draw the line somewhere. We are not all equal. Grow up and read a book. I get the feeling that I’m talking to myself most of the time.

Yes I agree, some people do choose to be assholes and screw people over, like the corporations you happily support by supporting capitalism.

Your initial statement said «lesser humans». You then went on to verify exactly what you meant by claiming that one group of humans is better than another one for arbitrary reasons. This is a fascist principle. It doesn’t matter if you don’t intend to rule with an iron fist or gas people to death. It’s still a fascist ideal, viewing one group of humans as better than another based on culture or race.

Yes, people moved to America. Yes some people believed it was a land of opportunity. Doesn’t mean it was. A lot of immigrants were poorly treated, there was racism. It wasn’t some golden wonderland as people like to paint it. You are allowed to think it is better, heck, you are even allowed to think the American people are better than others. But don’t get offended when I liken it to fascism, because it is the uncomfortable truth.

I could argue that child is «superior» to a parent in that they are more honest, and pure and uncorrupted by the world they find themselves in. Why would one suggest it’s racist and sexist to call ANYONE a fool, based on their *age*. It’s non-points like this that make your argument seem vacuous and poorly-thought out.

Your argument seems somewhat analogous to that of the famous George Orwell quote from «Animal Farm» that «All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others». Obviously, given that you were unable to even see the basic point of my post, I doubt you will be able to see the fundamental contradiction in that statement. But it is the same contradiction that is evident in every single post you make.

Telling me to «grow up and read a book» is very immature, given that you have never met me and do not know how much research I have done or literature I have read. I find personal insults to be the hallmark of someone who doesn’t have strong arguments to back up their opinion. Do you not like people pointing out basic flaws in your argument? I suppose you consider yourself «superor» to me in this regard. That you are «enlightened» and I am not.

Well I openly admit I don’t know everything. My opinion is not absolute, and I do not pass off my subjective view as an objective truth. I considered your views and did not write them off as something you’d find in the «idiot box».

May I suggest good sir if you feel you are talking to yourself, then the only reason is because you actually are, and yours is the only opinion you want to hear. You weren’t going to convince me with an argument that has obvious glaring flaws in it. ; )

Looking forward to your respectful reponse,

I could go on for hours about capitalism. We DO NOT have capitalism in America right now. Having the government bailout companies and regulate industries is not capitalism. So if you’re mad about these fascist companies controlling our lives you have socialism and big government to blame for that. Free market economics eliminates government enforced monopolies. GM, Chase, B of A, Citi, etc, etc should all be bankrupt right now. We have socialism to thank for keeping these «too big to fails» around.

I figured you wouldn’t like the Jesus response and would call him analogous to the creator so let’s replace him with George Washington. Is Adolf Hitler equal to George Washington?

With your response to the child you are starting to get it. Of course a child is more moral, honest, true and less corrupted. They haven’t been perverted by the world. But they are also stupid and naive. Parents on the other hand are usually the opposite. They are a bit more street smart and have been burned a few times. They have wised up to the way things work down here and developed their intelligence. But in so doing they have also become corrupted and lost many of the virtues children possess. Does this make them equal with children? I don’t think so. If this were the case children wouldn’t need parents. Children would take care of themselves as parents take care of themselves (unless of course they LOVE the government to take care of them). But children do need parents. Parents do not need children to survive. But they are still equal? On a spiritual level I could go with it. But on a physical level here on earth I don’t think so.

I honestly fail to see how you are unable to make the connection that some people are superior than others. I would much rather have a world of George Washingtons, Thomas Jeffersons, Platos, Einsteins, Newtons, Lincolns, da Vincis, Beethovens and so on than the majority of junk we have right now. I don’t mean it in a bad way. I love and respect all people. I just know that they are not of the caliber of the aforementioned names. I’m not of the quality either. I have the potential to be, we all do. But until we refine ourselves and evolve to a superior level we will still be inferior to them. But if we could help everyone become like these people, yet still let them keep their unique personalities, maybe then we would rid the world of useless wars, useless handouts, useless laws, useless jobs, useless waste and all the other problems we face due to being and having people who are inferior than these people.

We could even dive into Biblical examples if you would like, but I usually avoid the Bible as most people hate it and call it fiction (I for one DO NOT). There are many examples of the Israelites going in and destroying those evil, wicked Canaanites. We don’t need these Canaanites right? Let the greater be victorious over the lesser. Clearly Israel is God’s chosen people, right? Canaanites have inferior Gods to the Israelites. The Israelites are obviously better than the Canaanites and all these other «pagan» tribes who worship their idols and inferior Gods, right? The Bible is difficult to use because you can find a quote or section to argue any point you want to argue.

Perhaps it may be worth writing a full new post on this topic to really detail all the subtle points and drive my main argument home. I appreciate your response and take on things, but I just can not find any way to take such a stance. And believe me, I used to take your exact position.

The fact you try to persuade that U.S.A is not capitalist and more importantly refer to a bank bailout as an example is alarming as clearly you havn’t got the basic grasp of economics or definition.
You may aswell stand on your head and poo out your mouth such is the backward warped view

And it’s a good thing you presented an actual point and argument as opposed to just attacking a person via an ad hominem attack, oh wait.

I find it hard to believe that anyone would see these bailouts (especially NOW, in hind-sight) as anything LESS than socialistic. Anyone truly capitalistic would let these companies go down. It’s socialistic to help the larger ‘companies’ stay around to implement their ideology. Don’t be surprised if BofA is the ‘world bank of the USA’. Or that Freddy and Fanny was the only means to secure a loan. Bailouts are : UN-CAPITALISTIC.

I have to say AntiSpin is a smart fish. His argument is logical and respectful.

Everything is subjective. I have my perspective, he has his, you have yours. And I clearly disagree with both of you. Could I be wrong? Sure. Could both of you be wrong? Sure. You not seeing the world in a hierarchical perspective is you being «subjective». Using a broad safety net of calling something subjective and disregarding it based solely on that point is a terrible way to go about things. Something should be discredited not because it’s subjective but because it’s incorrect. I appreciate you trying to help me but fail to see how you offered any value whatsoever.

«The fact that people came to America for some unknown reason is not subjective. This is a historical fact. People came to America. If it was worse why did people come to America? Why would you choose to do something that is inferior by your own choice? Why come to America if it is a lesser nation with lesser people?»

Saying that «everybody immigrate[d] to the new American culture» and therefore American «culture was far superior to other inferior cultures» is wrong. It is actually a minority of people who emigrated to the US. Therefore, since most people did not actually go to America, then we may safely state that America must be inferior to other nations.

when or where does God say all men were created equal? Are you serious? Only but an idiot would assert that the sayings of Thomas Jefferson in the ‘Declaration of Independence’ were the voice of God. A more formidable example of ‘God’ states (ummm, in the Bible), that their are vessels of clay and vessels of silver. Their are vessels created for every need, some important, some not. Fact is, The impact of persons such as Steve Jobs (tech), Bill Gates (philanthropy), Albert Einstein (theory and invention), Thomas Gram (invention), etc. have contributions that exceed the 25 year oil-lamp lighter back in the 1800’s. what was his name again.

Where or when does God say all men are not created equal?

That would be 2 Timothy 2:20-21

20 In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. 21 Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

Nothing you couldn’t have googled yourself, btw.
You could always argue people aren’t *born* clay and silver, but that too would be besides the point. His point is not how people are at birth, but how they become.

The author of that chart obviously knows very little about politics. Go and read text books regarding the above. This chart is no where near accurate, nor does it represent the Democrats and Republicans of the United States.

I love how people complain about bias in the chart and then blame everything on the «evil» corporations.

This is a ridiculously stupid argument made by the left wing every chance they get. Because societal ills must be the fault of someone or something, and corporations are far enough beyond the understanding of the worker sheep that keep the left-wing in power, regular complaints about the «Evil Corporations» are sufficient to keep ignorant voters in line. The end result is more left wing socialism, which is precisely the source of the very societal ills blamed on the corporations. I call this «self perpetuating idiocy.»

Corporations aren’t evil. They aren’t a «thing» or a «person» or a «being» and, from the perspective of the government, only exist for tax purposes. Corporations must be taxed before profits are distributed to the workers in the form of payroll, which is then also taxed. And then the workers spend their money and pay sales tax. The remainder goes to fill the coffers of yet more corporations, where the money is taxed yet again for both the new corporation and its workers. The result is a never-ending flurry of taxation on the same money and is exactly equal to inflation unless we find ways to bring wealth in from other nations. Taxation causes inflation.

Corporations are simply a paperwork vehicle by which workers pool their money and put it in the hands of managers that they elect, with the hope that the corporation can use the money to turn a profit and return the worker some gain on his investment.

The bottom line is that without large corporations those workers will never be able to enjoy retirement in their golden years or rest from a lifetime of labor. Corporations are not evil. They are the source of America’s success.

People who rail against corporations are either morons or are disingenuous. If they really believe corporations are evil, let them sell their 401Ks and IRAs, donate the money to the poor, and live off the Social Security system that they have created.

Anyone who owns a 401K or IRA and complains about evil corporations is a buffoon, at best.

Excellent point. Thanks for you contribution 🙂

corperations in america in the 40’s, 50s, 60s, and 70’s were well known for being owned by workers. do you seriously think that now? i think the common form of corporations have changed very much since then.

that was like 50 years ago, and the natural progression of globalism/capitalism is the centralization of wealth and power (i’m not debating whether it’s good or bad) when you move from private citizens or a group of people owning their own collective business, to multinational mega-corperations. corperations get bought out and bigger ones move in and monopolize an industry. Your thoughts on capitalism are outdated, ones that i have heard before and seem to be the idealist concepts originally penned.

and btw, they ARE considered a ‘person.’ legally they are a private entity, allowed to function in society like they were Daryl McKenzie that lives a couple doors down the road that you owe a few brewskies to.

p.s. and to me, workers owning their companies collectively seems pretty ‘socialist’ to me.

p.p.s. i think if people like you tried to teach people the truth about social security, in america and all over the world, left and right alike would take note. politicians in the hands of bankers established it, not the common man, left nor right. so why hate on lefty.

corporations have been given the same rights as humans in America due to decades of lobbing, and soon if they already are not will be considered humans for all legal purposes
taxation is not the cause of inflation, all inflation really is, is a hidden tax on everyone using the currency the FCC explains a lot of this not in those terms ofc in «modern money mechanics» please read it.
corporations are the cause of america’s success no argument there, because they rape the third world of its resources, with no concern for the people in such places
most companies are NOT owned by their employees, if they were how would 5% of the country control around 90% of the wealth?
corporations have no agenda outside of profit, if a person had the same agenda we would most likely consider them evil

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but haven’t been online in a while.

Nazism was inspired by Italian Fascism, an invention of hardline Communist Benito Mussolini. During World War I, Mussolini recognized that conventional socialism wasn’t working. He saw that nationalism exerted a stronger pull on the working class than proletarian brotherhood. He also saw that the ferocious opposition of large corporations made socialist revolution difficult. So in 1919, Mussolini came up with an alternative strategy. He called it Fascism. Mussolini described his new movement as a «Third Way» between capitalism and communism. As under communism, the state would exercise dictatorial control over the economy. But as under capitalism, the corporations would be left in private hands.

Hitler followed the same game plan. He openly acknowledged that the Nazi party was «socialist» and that its enemies were the «bourgeoisie» and the «plutocrats» (the rich). Like Lenin and Stalin, Hitler eliminated trade unions, and replaced them with his own state-run labor organizations. Like Lenin and Stalin, Hitler hunted down and exterminated rival leftist factions (such as the Communists). Like Lenin and Stalin, Hitler waged unrelenting war against small business.

Hitler regarded capitalism as an evil scheme of the Jews and said so in speech after speech. Karl Marx believed likewise. In his essay, «On the Jewish Question,» Marx theorized that eliminating Judaism would strike a crippling blow to capitalist exploitation. Hitler put Marx’s theory to work in the death camps.

I’ve posted below what sums up the Nazis’ party campaign. It is a good summary of the basic lines of Nazi propaganda. This widely distributed Nazi pamphlet first appeared in 1929. The booklet included five cartoons by Mjölnir, Goebbels’ cartoonist. Mjölnir also produced some of the most familiar Nazi posters.

Why Are We Socialists?
The source: Joseph Goebbels and Mjölnir, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932).

We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.

Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and regaining German freedom. Socialism, therefore, is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total fighting brotherhood with the forward-striving energies of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing, a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is everything, the future, freedom, the fatherland!

The sin of liberal thinking was to overlook socialism’s nation-building strengths, thereby allowing its energies to go in anti-national directions. The sin of Marxism was to degrade socialism into a question of wages and the stomach, putting it in conflict with the state and its national existence. An understanding of both these facts leads us to a new sense of socialism, which sees its nature as nationalistic, state-building, liberating and constructive.

The bourgeois is about to leave the historical stage. In its place will come the class of productive workers, the working class, that has been up until today oppressed. It is beginning to fulfill its political mission. It is involved in a hard and bitter struggle for political power as it seeks to become part of the national organism. The battle began in the economic realm; it will finish in the political. It is not merely a matter of wages, not only a matter of the number of hours worked in a day — though we may never forget that these are an essential, perhaps even the most significant part of the socialist platform — but it is much more a matter of incorporating a powerful and responsible class in the state, perhaps even to make it the dominant force in the future politics of the fatherland. The bourgeoisie does not want to recognize the strength of the working class. Marxism has forced it into a straitjacket that will ruin it. While the working class gradually disintegrates in the Marxist front, bleeding itself dry, the bourgeoisie and Marxism have agreed on the general lines of capitalism, and see their task now to protect and defend it in various ways, often concealed.

We are socialists because we see the social question as a matter of necessity and justice for the very existence of a state for our people, not a question of cheap pity or insulting sentimentality. The worker has a claim to a living standard that corresponds to what he produces. We have no intention of begging for that right. Incorporating him in the state organism is not only a critical matter for him, but for the whole nation. The question is larger than the eight-hour day. It is a matter of forming a new state consciousness that includes every productive citizen. Since the political powers of the day are neither willing nor able to create such a situation, socialism must be fought for. It is a fighting slogan both inwardly and outwardly. It is aimed domestically at the bourgeois parties and Marxism at the same time, because both are sworn enemies of the coming workers’ state. It is directed abroad at all powers that threaten our national existence and thereby the possibility of the coming socialist national state.

Socialism is possible only in a state that is united domestically and free internationally. The bourgeoisie and Marxism are responsible for failing to reach both goals, domestic unity and international freedom. No matter how national and social these two forces present themselves, they are the sworn enemies of a socialist national state.

We must therefore break both groups politically. The lines of German socialism are sharp, and our path is clear.

We are against the political bourgeoisie, and for genuine nationalism!

We are against Marxism, but for true socialism!

We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature!

We are for the National Socialist German Workers Party!

Why does a superior country have to sell weapons? I hear weapon trafficking is how american capitalists are trying to hold on.In most parts of the world, both the terrorist and the army (in gulf countries) and government and the rebels(in countries having civil wars) have the weapons made in the USA.Is this the capitalist way to create peace in the world.

Dude, you are seriously misinformed. And I respect that it took some time to create that chart but your bias and lack of foundation knowledge is obvious. Your concept of capitalism is similar to what a child understands about Santa from his parents.

Damn I was hoping to get an intelligent view of all these systems but what I got was a Capitalism propaganda piece that is similar to anything where the powerful only want you to think in one way. Please don’t waste our time putting crap like this out again we all have had enough of this type of one sided garbage coming from all sides.

Capitalism is not a form of government. It is a term used to characterize an economic system. In a Capitalist system private enterprize is the prized. Pure Capitalism isn’t possible because there is no set definitions of terms and, most important, concentration of assets soon warps Capitalism into kleptocism or some other form of plutocratic system. This is something John Galt never told anybody.

I just have to say, this column is a pathetic analysis based entirely in opinion with no understanding of the philosophy of ethics and displaying a sever deficit in the way of analysis. I was hoping for something worthwhile when I found this site, but it really means nothing at all and is more than just biased; it’s purely wrong. There is virtually no critical thought being used here, nor any being generated by the readership.

Your well thought out counter has completely changed my opinion on the topic. I liked the part where you presented facts that actually brought something to the table as opposed to simply disagreeing. Oh wait.

last time i checked, America wasn’t with the whole FASCISM idea.

lmao exactly these people are idiots. I dont think they know what a fascism is.

I agree with the chart. I have been thinking exactly the same thing for some time now and I am surprised that someone came up with the same conclusions that I have. I have felt for quite a while now that we are no longer a republic, but we are a fascist state now. The changes were very slow over many decades. Most people have not been paying enough attention to what is happening and don’t know enough about history to «connect all the dots».

ummmmmmmmmmmmm please explain how we are a fascism. Because from my understanding we elect our leaders. We Influence the decisions the government has. We have our freedom of press, and in most states to bare arms. This chart is a bias close minded half ass inaccurate piece of shit. Sorry to be rude but I’m sick of people bitching about government when they dont understand every perspective. It’s not like everything thats different is wrong. Open up your mind bro.

As someone who wants to run an rpg making points between the different ideologies, and how they’d react to it to see how they TRULY feel the best political policy is. this is good at exposing the subtle differences, but how ultimately they all collapse and change into one form or another. I myself am not afraid to say that I’m willing to take the risks of socialism, communism, or even fascism. My only concern is the revenge against the rights «I’ve» lost do to private capital preventing me from achieving my dreams, or even daring to have any. Against many assholes who suppressed my opinion, when they were no more vulgar or hateful then what I’m writing right now, just because «it was their forum, and I’m but a guest», and against gays and women. Who I feel are responsible for the vast majority of our social ills.

We’re tired, we’re depressed, we work so many hours, we’re sick and dying because we can’t get healthcare, we’re unappreciated, and people wonder why some of us wake up, and are mad as hell, and willing to risk it all, just for a little revenge, for a little revolution. Statism works, because it truly expresses the human will to power. Red symbolizing the blood shed, black symbolizing the radical views and passion. We’re just mad as hell, and we’re not going to take it anymore. We shouldn’t have too. That’s why people are rioting in the streets, thats why people are shooting each other up, and there’s violent crimes. People are not bad. They’re just cooped up in their little cages like animals, and then you wonder why they start acting like animals. I don’t need to tell you things are bad, you know things are bad. But really, would it hurt that much to just do something crazy, just to insure it doesn’t get worse? Nothing makes sense. It’s just an insane hamster wheel of debt, hopelessness, and alienation. No one feels like they have anything. They have no ambition, they have no vision, they have no family or friends. All they had is their stupid Xbox, or enough money to get a blow job from some skanky prostitute. This is why I disagree with communists and socialists, they wouldn’t do enough to undermine women and gays so mankind has purpose and direction, and I don’t trust fascists either, as their interests lie in accumulating power and control, not in the greater good. I’ll be publishing a book about this soon.

As far as the rpg goes. Basically it’s Dungeons&Dragons. If you ever played D&D, it’s like World of Warcraft with books and other materials to construct a character. You got fantasy classes and races to combine, abilities, etc. Real life is not that controllable. Instead, the only control you’d have to not make you completely turned off by this game, is what race and class you are. But there’s no guarantee you’ll get the abilities you want, or even abilities at all. You may have piss poor stats and unable to properly use them. There’d be tokens for everything. Stat tokens, weapon and items tokens, spell tokens, feat tokens, etc. And classes only offer the probability of higher token ratio in some category. But in reality, it’s a lie. It depends on the system I plan to throw at my group.

Capitalism: Everyone gets tokens randomly. Someone could kill the same exact monster, with the same exact race/class, and still get different tokens for it. Oh sure, people can be «charitable», they can «trade» their tokens, they can try and cooperate. Or they can get greedy, they can get powerful, they become so successful that basically they make all the rules, and everyone has to follow along with the one guy’s plans or he can easily take on all of them. No «taxes» either. Pure Ayn Rand bullshit. Probably if a character dies, he plans to take his tokens with him.

Socialism: It’s still random. But there’s more taxation and regulation. Minimum wages, that way you can at least get one token, maximum wages, taxation against those with more tokens and the taxed tokens are distributed according to a voting process or randomly determined who gets the new tax rebate. All in all. It’s still basically capitalism. Just capitalism with more arguments at the table as the majority is elves and votes that all taxed tokens go to elves, in real life it’d be reversed where the «minority» gets the tokens. But if they were really the minority, they wouldn’t get shit. and usually they don’t. It’s just more «class warfare», but on a whole new level as people can exploit how they feel fighters are getting more stuff then wizards or whatever.

Fascism: Pretty much like socialism, only every so often, I’ll «elect» someone to pick where the tokens go. Much like the corruption in America, we cannot rely on the benevolence of our leaders, and they will more then likely «pocket» the taxed character tokens. Instead of «free trade» people will begin to beg the leader for mercy on a rebate by trading with them specifically, «lobbying». It becomes less about having the best character, and more about convincing the sheep you can make THEM the best character if they just cooperate and do what you tell them. Making every player feel like the DM at some point, and most likely they’ll kill each other faster then any other version of this game because they’ll get selfish.

Communism: Poverty is created purposely. Every time tokens would be given, they are split as evenly as possible, and they’ll like what they get, or be encouraged to turn on those who question the authenticity and purity of this egalitarian token distribution. They can work within this game frame to play variants of communism. Such as Trotskyism, where they CAN trade with each other, but on very limited basis. If there’s too much trading going on between two candidates and it is seen as a conspiracy, they will both be punished. Where as Stalinism would tell them to suck it up, and use the tokens they have. Maoism wouldn’t even give you your sliver of token all at once. But rather, with the glorified promises of more tokens for all, the first player A gets tokens, then player B gets tokens, and so on and so fourth. More jealously, more discontent, but little they can do about it. Except maybe conspire to kill a team mate and hope his death rewards them with more tokens.

My cheesy one-liner for such a game would be «there ain’t no war, but class war». If it wasn’t for copyright shit, I’d publish this as a D&D manual. I might be able to use the system reference document of D&D 3.5, which would do just fine.

wish you didnt bring d&d in to it or you would have written a very good piece. Yes it is class..hardly a war..class domination

This chart is hilarious, kids under ten really shouldnt be allowed to use the internet rtfl

tell me about it this is the most bias inaccurate bullshit I’ve seen in awhile. They dont even understand that a communism is run by a single party not a dictator. This is just pathetic

i didn’t take the time to read the comments but let me say this Communism and Fascism and Socialism ARE NOT THE SAME THING and CAPATALISM is not a form of government its an economic principle that you seem to associate with democracy. Your chart displays the 3 idoelogies that you disagree with in their imperfect corrupted states, and then Deomocracy and capatalism are displayed in a way that is neer the epitemy of thir idoelogies. Anyways back to thedifferences between them
Communism is not ruled by a dictator as a rule, in real communism as is proffessed in the communist manifesto everything is ruled by a collectivist proletariet and no one person is above anyone else. And descision are made collectively and even if not made collectively under communism that is as close to perfect as your dillusions about capatalism individual descisions can be made because the individual does things in the rational interest of the group. Also a centralized bank would not exist as there is no need for currency in sucha society because things of no tangible value are worthless. And there would also be no religon what so ever not even a state religon as it does not produce anything and only corrupts society.
to bored to finish gonna go to sleep but i could go on all day
and no i’m not a communist i’m an anarchist / objectivist so you can’t denounce ma as a communist bastard as i to find the idea of communism fundementaly flawed but i have to correct your idiocy slayerment.
PS
Fascism and Socailism/Communsim are close to polar opposites just because america demonizes them doesn’t make them similar

Great information. Thank you for sharing 🙂

I took the time to read the comments and I was shocked at how many people sides with the chart. For one thank you for being the only other person who agrees that a communism is NOT run by a dictator. There is close to nothing accurate about this chart.Your comment took the words right out of my mouth. I really hope it wasn’t an adult who produced this insanely bias chart. Because i’m a sophomore in high school, but can still recognize that a fascim has little to nothing to do with capitalism or socialism for that matter. They cant be compared. People need to learn the definition of what a fascism is or any of the categories in this chart. I mean this has to be a joke.

This Chart is totally accurate if you understand what it’s trying to convey. It’s merely stating what will come to pass. Things evolve including isms, but don’t be so foolish to say that communism isn’t run by a dictator. Just because some history textbook told you a party runs it doesn’t mean it will actually be run by a party! Please provide evidence that supports your claims when making a post, because I can’t think of one communist run system that didn’t end close to or exactly the way this table suggested it would. And by stating that there is nothing accurate about this chart simply confirms an older post «Sad State of Affairs» that ignorant people can’t formulate educated opinions, and require theoretical interpretations to guide them.
THINK vs REGURGITATE

The key problem i see with all 4 of these philosophies is that they are all run by man. Because of that, the philosophy that allows the most freedom is abviously the best, since man is a free entity-or he should be. It’s a hard sell to see the U.S. as a facist society right now. We have been, and are quickly moving toward a socialist society. Interesting table you have though. This is something we as a country need to discuss more as we try to embrace this Hope And Change thing.

ummm please explain why the hell you think we are a facism. You are correct that we are evolving into a socialist nation but you do realize we are a capitalism right?

lol this made me laugh

I agree we arent an IDAEL capitalism anymore, and it’s because of how the world is today. A capitalist country wont cut it anymore. You need to open up your mind though.I dont think you know what a true ideal socialism is. It CAN be run by a changing people selected government whom controls the wealth of our multi billion dollar corporations. Besides a true capitalist country is a foolish idea when large companies such as google hold a monoply.Your last sentence makes no sense. A capitalist sysetm is more «dog eat dog» and an IDEAL communism is to good to be true to ever work, BUT perhaps just maybe a socialism would work.

I like how everything that is seen as good is put in the column for capitalism and their are no pros for any of the other columns. What people fail to understand is that there must be a balance of what some call «government» and then the privacy or free will of its people. Just like good and evil, there cannot be a completely good human or a destructive all powerful evil human being.

First off this chart has to be a joke. Do you realize how bias this is. I get the point that you dont understand the potential of improved ideas. Do you even know what a socialism is? Also a facsism has to do more with the ruler not the economy. Holy shit you said a communism is ruled by a dictator! Just fyi a communism is ruled by a singe elite party. A socialism can be run by anything I say. A capitalism is ruled by numerous parties. As far as religious freedoms that has absolutley nothing to do with socialism, capitalism, or communism. I was hoping i’d find something interesting not some bullshit bias half ass chart. In case you are wondering I am not a communist or any of the above. What we all should do is take the qualities of Communism and capitalism to put together something better. Like a socialism, except with a capitalist twist. I hope you aren’t an adult cause I’m a sophomore in high school and the little I know about these subjects is still more than you. hilarious

lol.. your a sophomore and ima freshman in high school.

Are you serious? Or just being funny?

Only an American can put up a diagram like this 🙂
No is not accurate at all. Unfortunately you lack the basic knowledge of the four systems you try to analyse. To a left wing communist or socialist the Democrats in the US are pretty right wing. It is funny what you guys call left wing or communist. If you only knew. If I’d draw the left-wing, centre, right wing spectrum and compare it between Europe and USA I’d draw it like this:

i think that communist is perfect but it dose need a few tweaks like freedom and any rights but the idea of being equal in other terms like finance etc is a positive of communism

communism is not possible because nations rely on global trade in today’s globalism, this trade is not possible with a communist country as it does not value currency. Human society and it’s people have not evolved to the extent yet where it would be possible to succeed. maybe in a hundred years or so.

I think you are a bitter person. Things are not as bad as you are making them out to be.
Sure, Obama leans toward Socialism, but he’s learning. Sure Bush was a Fascist, but that doesn’t make the entire country Fascist. Sure America has gone through some weird times since Bush became president, but I think we are growing out of that. I think Capitalism still exists in limited ways, and people like me are all for it. Don’t be down about it, things will get better.
I have a lot of faith in the future generations because of their access to information through the Internet and the Social Networks. Things are changing already, can’t you tell? If we all pitch in and do our part, telling our reps what we want, if we all work towards freedom, we can do it. Don’t give up.

All valid points. Thank you for sharing 🙂

uhh you want capitalism? Why would you want a vein, greedy all self society? Leads to the worst corruption ever. Economically is so stupidly flawed, there’s a financial meltdown every decade or so. Such a hidius cut throat society.
The worlds only super power doesn’t have health care for all, how immoral is that, so greedy they will let somebody die if they are poor. But money is everything, right?

Capitalism doesn’t lead to corruption any more than any other form of government.

But let’s explore this more because socialists are so confused about this. Is giving something to somebody really what’s best for them? Is it really better to give somebody a fish or to teach them to fish? Is it really better to give somebody healthcare or to teach them to take care of themselves? Where do you draw the line? Why not give them everything they need? Why not give them a free car? Why not give them free food? After all, it’s immoral for poor people not to have food, right? But then you have the problem of resources. We live in a resource intensive world. We only have so many resources. So who provides the resources to give these free things to people? Resources don’t come out of nowhere. They take work. And I don’t see socialists giving, I only see them taking. The whole socialist facade is elementary at best. It has no basis in reality, logic or historical fact.

Let me make it really simple for you:

Are you a slave or are you free?

»All types of governments have greedy people with self-interest» There is a differance between a corrupt soul that is in self interest to a person who stands for a political ideology that is inherently self interest.

»Capitalism doesn’t lead to corruption any more than any other form of government.» Through capitalism, private corporations get more powerful and resourceful than anywhere else, and therefore use this in their media influences and most importantly, sponsorship/political party donations which without a political candidate in america cannot even run for a position without such financing.

»Economically capitalism is the best. That is why capitalists fund socialism, communism and fascism» Talking out your bottom here frankly, there is no factual basis for this what so ever, the only way i could see you reach this conclusion is through americas role as a superpower on the financial market, with the value fo the dollar so strong. Americas role on the world market is simply through natural resources of the vast land and nothing to do with ideology. If anything evidence points towards the opposite for your belief. America is now financially dependant on China buying their goods. It even resorts to raiding other coutnries for oil to keep it’s own economy afloat.

»Capitalism is without a doubt the best economically»

»the world’s super power does have health care for all. It’s called a good diet and exercise.» Erm no thats called a good healthy life style, completely irrevelant to the point made.

Your final paragraph is also nonsense, teach to fish? what the hell has quotes from the bible got to do with this, and the point of it is completely irrevelant.

So basically you mean, teach them to get a job and take care of themself so they don’t die without medical care. I belive you call this being a slave to industry. Some people are born less fortunate and live less fortunate lives also, so should they just die? Also having a job is completely a economic issue and not a persons fault, it is 15% unemployment in america right now, so should they just die?

‘problem of resources’ o please every supermarket throws tons of food out in waste every single day, they do not even give it to homeless starving people. So spare me the propoganda. You mention resources yet mention a car, how ironic,a car is the most inneficient resource around. ‘resources don’t come out of nowhere’ yes they come from crops in the ground..or from the GDP, or corporate/goverment income. It is amazing how nations with over a buillion such as india manage to feed population, yet the supposedly richest in the world thinks there isn’t enough food for their own, complete drivel. Reminds of me reading about the great depression, when america had to throw milions of milk down the drain when people were malnurished. But better than than to undermine an ideological stance. eh? All for profit and damned with morality. capitalism is the devil

»All types of governments have greedy people with self-interest» There is a differance between a corrupt soul that is in self interest to a person who stands for a political ideology that is inherently self interest.

And how is self interest bad? What if my self interest makes other people’s lives better? What if my lack of self interest makes other people’s lives worse? It can go either way. Just because capitalism allows self interest doesn’t mean it’s bad. If you want to help other people in capitalism you can. You can do whatever you want. Are you afraid of freedom?

»Capitalism doesn’t lead to corruption any more than any other form of government.» Through capitalism, private corporations get more powerful and resourceful than anywhere else, and therefore use this in their media influences and most importantly, sponsorship/political party donations which without a political candidate in america cannot even run for a position without such financing.

So? This doesn’t happen in socialism? This doesn’t happen in communism? Lol. There is always corruption. Capitalism prevents corruption the best. If the corrupt capitalists aren’t providing value and keeping the people happy they go bankrupt and say bye bye to their money.

If a capitalist takes control of the political system that is the people’s fault. The people hold the cards. They can stop supporting that business. They can stop buying those products or services. They can choose not the be represented by the morons they put into office. This is called freedom 101.

»Economically capitalism is the best. That is why capitalists fund socialism, communism and fascism» Talking out your bottom here frankly, there is no factual basis for this what so ever, the only way i could see you reach this conclusion is through americas role as a superpower on the financial market, with the value fo the dollar so strong. Americas role on the world market is simply through natural resources of the vast land and nothing to do with ideology. If anything evidence points towards the opposite for your belief. America is now financially dependant on China buying their goods. It even resorts to raiding other coutnries for oil to keep it’s own economy afloat.

I am definitely talking out of my bottom here. But these people aren’t:

[. ] the Bolshevik Revolution having been engineered and financed out of England and the United States is mostly portrayed as an independent movement. That was not the case, as Lenin admitted in March 1922.

At the Eleventh Party Congress of the Communist Party Lenin was foolish to admit that the party was being directed by «a huge bureaucratic machine.» He died a few months later from what was suspected as a poison that mimics paresis (syphilis,) which substance shall not be named here. The so-called Bolshevik Revolution was financed entirely with money from Lord Alfred Milner and Kuhn Loeb acting as a conduit for the Rockefellers through their puppet, President Woodrow Wilson.
Dr. John Coleman; The Committee of 300

The Capitalists of the world and their governments, in pursuit of conquest of the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the indicated higher reality and thus will turn into deaf mute blind men. They will extend credits, which will strengthen for us the Communist Party in their countries, and giving us the materials and technology we lack, they will restore our military industry, indispensable for our future victorious attacks on our suppliers. In other words, they will labor for the preparation for their own suicide.
Vladimir Lenin; as quoted by Antony Sutton in Revolution

It was about this time [1920] that the Wilson Administration sent 700,000 tons of food to the Soviet Union which, not only saved the regime from certain collapse, but gave Lenin the power to consolidate his control over all of Russia.
G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island

In 1922, the Soviets formed their first international bank. It was not owned and run by the state as would be dictated by Communist theory, but was put together by a syndicate of private bankers. These included, not only former Tsarists bankers, but representatives of German, Swedish, and American banks. Most of the foreign capital came from England, including the British government itself. The man appointed as Director of the Foreign Division of the new bank was Max May, Vice President of Morgan’s Guaranty Trust Company in New York.
G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island

The public believed that the United States leadership was opposed to the Soviet Union because one was capitalist and one was communist. Not true. They are different kinds of cartels, that’s all, and controlled, ultimately, by the same people. Communism was created by Wall Street and the City of London to generate enormous fear and conflict which was used to great effect to advance the Agenda. As always, it was planned long before it became public.
David Icke; The Biggest Secret

Oops, didn’t learn about this in history class did you? Maybe it’s because history class has been taken over by the same people who funded communism. naaaaah. that’s crazy talk.

In fact, here is a quick translation for you:

^ Oh shit! IT BOUNCED! It did it again! Did you see that. There it goes again! This never gets boring! I could watch this all day 🙂 Bounce #5.

Now are you starting to see all the dynamics behind the Bolshevik Revolution and the private banking interests? The guy dribbles the ball. The guy runs with the ball. The guy puts the ball through the ring. OH SNAP. DID YOU SEE THAT! SO COOL! THERE HE GOES AGAIN! 2 POINTS! OMFG. HOLLA!

Still too confused? Hmmm. Maybe another language:

Okay! Now we’re hitting with something a bit closer to home 🙂 You see, the boobs represent America and England. They are both different but still part of the same body. Then you have the pretty face that they use to conceal communism with. Communism looks really good at face value. then you get a bit closer and BAM! BANKRUPTCY. Good! Now we’re making progress 🙂 Forget all those quotes I gave you above. What was I thinking?

»Capitalism is without a doubt the best economically»
How is basing an ecomony on consumerism logical? it leads to consumption of resources than end up depleted and the starvation of the land. It is a battle to survive ‘competition’ and fails to recognise the amount that die of like they are invisible, this is not progress.

You got me. Basing an economy on consumerism isn’t logical at all. So please explain to me why collectivists like yourself support it. I’m over here trying to support capitalism which increases production and improves efficiency and here you are telling me that consumerism is logical. Totally ludicrous if you ask me.

This type of discussion is obviously way over your head but I will dumb it down for you. Our money, the Federal Reserve Note, is not backed by anything. It used to be. That changed in 1971. We now are not limited by how much money we print. We have a central bank (Communist Plank #5) that was set up in 1913 and is owned by foreign and domestic interests. They control how much money we have in circulation. They have virtually no oversight by congress. They have never been audited. They increase the money supply to create bubbles. Prices rise because more people have money to spend on items. Prices aren’t really rising, it is just taking more money to buy items and more people have money which creates bidding wars. Once reality catches up and people are brought back to the reality that they’re really poor slaves and not rich sovereigns things collapse. At this point the people who control the government buy up all the assets at discount through the government. They gain more control and the people lose more. This has been going on for a long time now. That is how it works. If we didn’t have all the socialist government monopolies this would be prevented much, much better by a free market.

»the world’s super power does have health care for all. It’s called a good diet and exercise.» Erm no thats called a good healthy life style, completely irrevelant to the point made.

Well good, because this next point is entirely relevant.

Why you’ve totally got me confused now. If things really are that bad maybe I should enter the medical industry with cheap prices. Oh yeah I forgot! I CAN’T! I can’t enter the medical industry without a license and without adhering to regulations. Wait, what? Why do I have to follow this ever growing list of regulations in order to practice medicine? Why can’t I just help people because I am educated and know how? Why does the government need to approve what I do? Why do I have a socialist-government monopoly that won’t allow me to enter the market? Oh yeah, because it’s not a free market. It’s not capitalistic.

HINT: In a capitalistic society prices go down and quality goes up. Just look at the UNREGULATED technology industry. Why does medicine go up in price? GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT. If the medical field was treated like the technology field prices would be lower now than ever. But we can’t practice capitalism in America. Are you crazy? People can’t handle the freedom of which medicine to take. That’s more crazy talk.

Your final paragraph is also nonsense, teach to fish? what the hell has quotes from the bible got to do with this, and the point of it is completely irrevelant.

It’s actually probably the largest point and worthy of much philosophical consideration. Is it better to give something to somebody or to teach them how to get it / do it themselves? Do you want people to be dependent or independent? Are most children dependent or independent? You obviously love your dependency and servitude, but most slaves do.

So basically you mean, teach them to get a job and take care of themself so they don’t die without medical care. I belive you call this being a slave to industry. Some people are born less fortunate and live less fortunate lives also, so should they just die? Also having a job is completely a economic issue and not a persons fault, it is 15% unemployment in america right now, so should they just die?

No shit people are born less fortunate. So? Some people are born more fortunate. Who cares? Who’s to say it is better to be born «more fortunate»? Who’s to say it is worse to be born «less fortunate»? This obviously has a lot of spiritual considerations tied to it as well, but most collectivists want nothing to do with spirituality.

Further, historically and logically speaking capitalism is much better at improving the quality of life of those who are born poor and less fortunate. Collectivism not only keeps them there, but brings the rich down there with them. Again, I know you don’t understand this concept. Here is a concept you do understand:

‘problem of resources’ o please every supermarket throws tons of food out in waste every single day, they do not even give it to homeless starving people. So spare me the propoganda. You mention resources yet mention a car, how ironic,a car is the most inneficient resource around. ‘resources don’t come out of nowhere’ yes they come from crops in the ground..or from the GDP, or corporate/goverment income. It is amazing how nations with over a buillion such as india manage to feed population, yet the supposedly richest in the world thinks there isn’t enough food for their own, complete drivel. Reminds of me reading about the great depression, when america had to throw milions of milk down the drain when people were malnurished. But better than than to undermine an ideological stance. eh? All for profit and damned with morality. capitalism is the devil

All your hatred for capitalism stems from a lack of understanding of REAL capitalism. All of the things you complain about are made better from capitalism. Again, capitalism raises the standard of living better than any of the collectivist ideals. But then again, I’m just stating history. Go argue with your history book.

i Honestly know for sure i would be wasting my time having a debate with you such is the extent of radical capitalist belief. Borders extremism. Clearly it is all you have been taught with the propoganda machine and as a result believe it to such an extent you cannot even question it or critically analyse.

‘In a capitalistic society prices go down and quality goes up.’
‘More money per person is spent on health care in the USA than in any other nation in the world'(wiki) Oh is that why 17% go uninsured and 46% of bankrupsy are because of costs?

Do you realise the highly bias extremist flawed extent them quotes are derived from also? i may aswell go get a quote from hitler. I touhght you would have read author millers death of a salesman, after all i had to read it in school and it’s american. No doubt anything a tad against apitalism is forbidden.
All i can say is you bias is so profound it is jawdropping, capitalism is the be all end all, solution to perfection and everything else is bad, all i can say is, self interest is selfish, vanity and materialistic, choose your morality and virtues in life above all else, including money and ideology

that girl is prettayyy bang tidy though

I can give examples in every walk of life, for example, they are privatising the british NHS, to reduce costs, how? (This is despite it being one of the lowest costing insitutions in the world) by private companys competing, theyd ecide who gets the contract by who can run the operation the cheapest, this leads to reduction of quality and serious safety issues. I can also point out the disgusting lies republicans made in response to obamas health plans, saying the NHS had ‘death panals’ This is the sort of country you live in. Not only do these leaders make up offensive lies, they do not do it out of ideological policy, they do it out of self interest because of the amount of money the pharmeceutical companies et al.

kid you are unreal 🙂

can you explain hoe capitalism is noy in the world today? Every single EU country is capitalist?

Everything is a hybrid between capitalism, socialism, fascism and other collectivist regimes to various degrees. Pure capitalism wouldn’t require a central bank. Pure capitalism would allow you to buy goods and services with gold or whatever else you wanted to use. Pure capitalism would allow you to fly without having to go through toddler security lines. Pure capitalism wouldn’t militarily force you to pay welfare for other people. Pure capitalism would allow me to offer medical services without a license. Pure capitalism wouldn’t have the government involved in businesses that can be done better in the private sector. Everything around us is a hybrid. Some countries have more elements of capitalism and others less. But there are no pure capitalist countries, and there never have been.

I generally agree with the chart. With our government schools, transportation, healthcare, military empire, and central bank with it’s currency monopoly, there’s no way modern day American should be considered Capitalist. The money was the big step. Once the bankers got the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 passed, that was the end of the Old Republic. Government has grown bigger ever since.

halleriously stupid chart, recommend you look up definitions of words in your chart as its completely wrong, don’t blame you though, iknow USA education is dreadful, arrogant retards

God, foreigners are such smug assholes

Historically the soviet union under stallin was slightly fascist, It is worth pointing out you obviously have no idea what communism is, it is an equal society with no class based on meritocracy, everybody is equal working for the common good and decisions are made by the populations will, look up marxism. Communism in today’s society isn’t possible because the human race hasn’t evolved enough as a society and it’s people, we have witnessed altered and failed versions.

Nazi germany was socialist, Hitler was elected and favoured a national run economy. Only in the final month when the war was to be lost, could you even attempt to suggest it was fascist.

Amused your comment praising capitalism includes the death penalty, america and china have the highest by miles in the world, and most the world don’t have it, china can eb excused to a large extent, having over a billion habitants though.

religion- ‘humanism’ ‘state sponsored’mamde me laugh that one did. humanism. pretty sure they all allow ANY religion, fascist varying depending on views.
‘level of self responsibility’ How are they all low and USA is high? makes no sense, as everybody besides communism requires money to survive at a decent standard.
Soviet union had rediculous personal growth i.e roman abromovich. UK has some of the leading business entrepreneurs.
‘Inteligence’ Hate to burst your bubble but as somebody who has studied education, america has one of the lowest educations in the developed world, obviously excluding the elite.
‘ran by’ you have communism as, dictator showing you completely have no clue once again. The reality is socialists in reality all come from wealthy upper class backgrounds..as do capitalists.
‘freedom’ made from no basis what so ever to make america look good, same applies to ‘creativity’ god’ USA were the last to stop slaves, and would sterilise ‘stupid’ or disabled people as recent as the 50’s woo amazing freedom, also the only country to nuke. civilians.

‘moral’ is the completely wrong way round as capitalism reduces it with the self ambition/interest of greed and wealth.

You have known about your errors for some time now so correct your chart?

On a personal level, I believe capitalism is complete evil, no logic on running an economy based on consumer goods as it leads to wasted resources. Capitalism is dog eat dog cut throat, stepping on each other to reach the top as the ones below stump to poverty and die, with no help, ironic seing as america is supposed to be cristian. Private business leads to giant corporations that corrupt every piec eof society, USA goverment has been corrupt since Kennedys assasination if you ask me. Admittedly this also happens in today’s ssocialism but this is a result of the capitalist market. Unofrtunately the fox news and american culture have them so patriotised it’s scary with so much propoganda, stay away from fox news. USA is ran by fat cats, unbelievably corrupt, are an empire in denial, why does the rest fo the world hate them, are they really ignorant stupid fat and arrogant? No, but some are!

Historically the soviet union under stallin was slightly fascist, It is worth pointing out you obviously have no idea what communism is, it is an equal society with no class based on meritocracy, everybody is equal working for the common good and decisions are made by the populations will, look up marxism. Communism in today’s society isn’t possible because the human race hasn’t evolved enough as a society and it’s people, we have witnessed altered and failed versions.

You are totally looking at the surface level. Of course it looks like that on the surface level. But in reality everything is controlled: education, production and everything else, just like in most civilizations, including present day America. If communism is such a good model why was America financing it? Why was a capitalistic country financing communism? Why wasn’t communism financing America? If communism is such a good model why isn’t the Soviet Union still around today? To even think that communism is a self-sustaining model is absolutely ridiculous. You’re right, everybody is equal in communism: they’re all slaves. And I don’t want to be owned by the state. You talk about how slavery is wrong but then support a communist government. But this time you’re not racist against skin color, but rather intelligence and integrity. Way to go racist!

Nazi germany was socialist, Hitler was elected and favoured a national run economy. Only in the final month when the war was to be lost, could you even attempt to suggest it was fascist.

Amused your comment praising capitalism includes the death penalty, america and china have the highest by miles in the world, and most the world don’t have it, china can eb excused to a large extent, having over a billion habitants though.

It’s good to know them Socialist/Fascist Nazis didn’t have a death penalty. It’s good to know they weren’t about killing other people. The way they handled it was very fair and balanced. Oh wait. I really don’t even know what point you are trying to prove here, but then again neither do you.

religion- ‘humanism’ ‘state sponsored’mamde me laugh that one did. humanism. pretty sure they all allow ANY religion, fascist varying depending on views.

Bullshit. On the surface it may appear this way but by actions it’s not true. Religion is deeper than simply a label. A Christian in this day and age isn’t like a Christian in 1800 America. Christians these days are pussies. They won’t fight or stand for anything. What am I getting at?

It doesn’t matter what religion you are. As long as you are practicing Humanistic principles, which communism/socialism and fascism are all very closely based it doesn’t matter what religion you are. C/S/F as a whole all champion you being better than God. They say that you can do anything you want. They all say anything goes.

But it is all much deeper than this. The rulers of C/S/F determine what people will believe. Let’s see what Albert Pike has to say on this issue. Since you don’t know who Albert Pike is you won’t realize how big of a deal this very quote really is:

We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but with out knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.
Albert Pike, 1871

^ This is Humanism. This is what C/S/F are all working towards bringing in.

‘level of self responsibility’ How are they all low and USA is high? makes no sense, as everybody besides communism requires money to survive at a decent standard.
Soviet union had rediculous personal growth i.e roman abromovich. UK has some of the leading business entrepreneurs.

They are all low because Socialists, Communists and somewhat Fascists aren’t self-responsible. They can’t take care of themselves. That’s why they have the state, lol. They can’t handle freedom. They’re slaves. They need somebody to hold their hand. They need somebody else to do the innovation and work so they can take it. But what happens when nobody wants to work anymore? Oops, didn’t think of that. But that’s okay, basketball is on. Slaves love sports.

‘Inteligence’ Hate to burst your bubble but as somebody who has studied education, america has one of the lowest educations in the developed world, obviously excluding the elite.

Lol, no shit. That’s because America has been taken over and isn’t a capitalistic country. Does a federal/state ran school system sound capitalistic? Were American schools ran by the Federal government in the 1800s? Hmmmmmm. So if you’re mad about the American school system that is a socialist model. You’re mad about socialism. And so am I.

‘ran by’ you have communism as, dictator showing you completely have no clue once again. The reality is socialists in reality all come from wealthy upper class backgrounds..as do capitalists.

Oh please. C/S/F are all ran by dictators at the end of the day. It may be a group of front men like Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and so on, but they’re all heavily controlled and influenced by the real power. These people don’t come to power by chance. People put them in power. Just like all the other dictators around the world.

‘freedom’ made from no basis what so ever to make america look good, same applies to ‘creativity’ god’ USA were the last to stop slaves, and would sterilise ‘stupid’ or disabled people as recent as the 50’s woo amazing freedom, also the only country to nuke. civilians.

‘moral’ is the completely wrong way round as capitalism reduces it with the self ambition/interest of greed and wealth.

You want to talk greed and self-interest, let’s talk socialists and communists. They actually use the government to legally enforce the stealing of money from one person to another. If we were to steal money from somebody on the streets it is called crime. If we do it under socialism or communism it is called fair. Fair to who? It’s illogical, irrational and immoral. There is going to be greedy people anywhere. Rich people are greedy, poor people are greedy, smart people are greedy, stupid people are greedy and Communists like yourself are especially greedy.

You have known about your errors for some time now so correct your chart?

I said from the start the chart isn’t perfect. But it is closer than most of the stuff you will find online. But you don’t have to believe it. Choose not to. Live a poor life with poor information. I’m not forcing it on you. If you want to imprison yourself knock yourself out.

On a personal level, I believe capitalism is complete evil, no logic on running an economy based on consumer goods as it leads to wasted resources. Capitalism is dog eat dog cut throat, stepping on each other to reach the top as the ones below stump to poverty and die, with no help, ironic seing as america is supposed to be cristian. Private business leads to giant corporations that corrupt every piec eof society, USA goverment has been corrupt since Kennedys assasination if you ask me. Admittedly this also happens in today’s ssocialism but this is a result of the capitalist market. Unofrtunately the fox news and american culture have them so patriotised it’s scary with so much propoganda, stay away from fox news. USA is ran by fat cats, unbelievably corrupt, are an empire in denial, why does the rest fo the world hate them, are they really ignorant stupid fat and arrogant? No, but some are!

Thanks for the reply.
surface level. It was ruled by a dictator, one body which in sheer definition is fascist and the complete opposite to communist. How was america financing communism? America was at war with the supposed communism and as i have expressed, communism has not occured yet. The soviet Union not being around is irrevelant since it was not communist. The soviet union broke by by it’s own political will, as inevetiby all things come to an end. How is communism against integrity and inteligence? i think you have been reading to much american propoganda still fed from the cold war.

Security over freedom is completely a personal issue of what ever goverment and is not attached to any of these policies. I am sure america hold people in alcatraz without trial for 7 years in the need of ‘security’ As are numerous terrorism laws introduced in your sopposed free goverment, such hypocracy here it is untrue. This is infact not policy in the majority of socialist goverments.

»It’s good to know them Socialist/Fascist Nazis didn’t have a death penalty. It’s good to know they weren’t about killing other people. The way they handled it was very fair and balanced. Oh wait. I really don’t even know what point you are trying to prove here, but then again neither do you.»
Categorising something correctly does not mean i support it..it means categorise it correctly! rather than some ignorant wilt of throwing it in one pile.

»C/S/F as a whole all champion you being better than God. They say that you can do anything you want. They all say anything goes.» being better than god? never heard that in my life, who is to say a person even believes in god? you are refering to havin aspirations not being unfairly stopped nothing more. I also hear the phrase ‘ the american dream’ ‘rags to riches’

»This is Humanism. This is what C/S/F are all working towards bringing in.» sounds like some secret conspiracy theory, please let me in on this gem of a secret? lol
Do not know where you get your information but every country on earth nearly, allows complete freedom of religion, besides minimal extremist islamic regions. I could also point out. That quote is from a strange offensive person, so odd, how can you sayathists will bring destruction etc and persecution, once again, GOOGLE THE DEFINITION. Saying something not understood that is differant to you. i.e faith, religion of catholics and athiests seems to lead to fear and percecution from you for no apparent reason. You may aswell suggest catholics are out to destroy athiests.

They are all low because Socialists, Communists and somewhat Fascists aren’t self-responsible. They can’t take care of themselves. That’s why they have the state, lol. They can’t handle freedom. They’re slaves. They need somebody to hold their hand. They need somebody else to do the innovation and work so they can take it. But what happens when nobody wants to work anymore? Oops, didn’t think of that. But that’s okay, basketball is on. Slaves love sports.
you have no basis to have the opinion that anybody is self responsible, The 6 million people on this planet take care of themself, or they would be dead, it is about specialisation of tasks, some farm, some do office task and they use money to trade and get an efficient means of living. Nesrly everybody in every country works so your argument here falls on it’s feet, infact in america unemloyment is at an extreme 15% ironic!
In regards to welfare, that is there to support those without a job, which is not their fault but a fault of the nations economy to provide these positions in abundance. It is also a question of morality as it is only right to support those who cannot support themself. I.E the good samaritan (assume your catholic) If a person does not want to work then they are doomed for poverty, as they have no money, you only get welfare if you want to work and prove this weekly. Ironicly welfare only provides on average £50 a week anyway which is not enough for a decent standard of living anyway! you try live on that. i could equally infact argue that capitalists are infact slaves, slaves of corporation and the economic situation they are placed in, having to work for money. What happened to the days a person could grow their own food and live how they wish?

»So if you’re mad about the American school system that is a socialist model. You’re mad about socialism. And so am I.»
America is the biggest capitalist state ever to exist so i’m rather puzzled here. Wow where to begin here. Education should be a state run process to adress the collective will and need of the nations economy,values and desires. Making them private in nature results in class division, poor standard of schools on a ever dwindling spiral. To say educational success is a result of socialist/capitalist wim is so simplistic it is scary, obviously it involves many differant values for success. What place does capitalism have in schools anyway, capitalism is a model for ecomonic growth and business, nothing to do with raising children or inteligence, besides focusing on vocational aspects.

»Oh please. C/S/F are all ran by dictators at the end of the day. It may be a group of front men like Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and so on, but they’re all heavily controlled and influenced by the real power. These people don’t come to power by chance. People put them in power. Just like all the other dictators around the world.» The real power, you mean like the president being a poster boy for the real congress and corporations who fund their presidential election. So does america not have dictators? seing as it is impossible to be president without mass wealth and sponsorship, traded by political policy?
Socialism is a collective group oF MP’s for each city by proportion of population who make decisions in line with a leader. of which ever political party elected, in which the population agree with. Dictator? no. Basically the same applies in theory with capitalism. communism is not either.

»You want to talk greed and self-interest, let’s talk socialists and communists. They actually use the government to legally enforce the stealing of money from one person to another. If we were to steal money from somebody on the streets it is called crime. If we do it under socialism or communism it is called fair. Fair to who? It’s illogical, irrational and immoral. There is going to be greedy people anywhere. Rich people are greedy, poor people are greedy, smart people are greedy, stupid people are greedy and Communists like yourself are especially greedy.»
Stealing? how is it stealing, its distribution of people on such land for equal benefit, a person is free to leave if they do not agree with this way or vote for differant political process. It is a process of goverment regulation, and not a crime. fair to who you say,fair to everybod!
Greed you must admit stems from capitalist philosophy, and the way a person is raised. A person of true communist nature doesn’t even believe in the value of currency.

ROFL sorry but the team america song came in my head then, ‘america fu* yeah gunna save the motha f*n world yeah!’
Again just ebcause you do not undersand a persons view does not make them a polar opposite, you know i stand for freedom and ethics yet you percieve this ‘enemy’

Republican? so do you agree gay people should be declassified as subhuman and not be married, do you disagree with abortion? do you realise republicans represent the rich few against the poor majority? This is the same as the socialist conservatives. Both have rediculously sleasy links with private companys who fund their objectives. Mate America at the moment is the most capitalist it has ever been, how many national run corporations currently even exist there? none i suspect. They invade countries for oil and personal wealth, undermine their own presidents aims and policy of free personal health care and have the power to keep it privatised. They are resonsible for the majority fo the carbon footprint on the planet for global warming and are the only nation who oppose UN resolutions for deals to decease it. They are the only nation to use nukes on another country yet demand other countries do not have the right to have them. Not believing in God does not mean a person is against god, it is a differant perception of life, an athiest has never started a war like other religions, aperson of no religion has never started a 2000 year old bloody crusande. A person of no religion still has faith (in science),still uses the principles within religion i.e morality

It seems to me like americans have lived through this raping the resourches of the planet, destroying other nations, taking their oil, nuking countries, almost single handedly creating global warming, all this in ignorance. The american goverment is very good with propoganda it seems, as often is with the case of poorly educated nations. This whole capitalism is the way forward, because you can come from ‘rags to riches’ ‘the american dream’ or a popular new term that amused me ‘get rich or die trying’ The reality is the masses starve and crime runs wild. A good book to read on this is Author Millers life of a salesman. Bush done some dreadful deeds, but what are americans most annoyed by, his actions, or his stupidity. The world was angered by actions not his stupidity. America then falls for the change pitch, the most obvious stupid ploy ever and everything is golden again, when the reality is only the poster boy changed to keep the masses at bay and happy. Now it appears that amidst the current hardship, they somehow have the american people blaming socialism for their current plight, even though they are the most capitalist country on earth, yet they are convinced it is socialsm at fault and capitalism is the way forward. A very interesting ploy indeed.

here is the communist manifesto so there is no confusion. Try to establish the differance between what your american rulers have told you.(does not mean i support communism)

Quite eerie how spot on the first section is of communist manifesto. It could have easily been a report written in the past month as opposed to when it was actually written (1850s?). I highly suggest it to anyone who has any doubts where our county is headed. or where it has landed.sigh.

Though it took me several hours to read through the posts above, I want to thank the participants for the lively discussion, and from a more objective point of view than perhaps those arguing back and forth, what i notice is that the notion of developmental hierarchy (vs dominator) is at play here. First of all the table is very helpful, and though I disagree with some of the categorization, it is obviously not set in stone and simply serves as a framework for hopefully respectful discussion. In a developmental hierarchy, though we humans are all created equal with inalienable human rights endowed by the Creator, we must acknowledge that some behaviors are more wholesome than others and lead to wholly positive change and a less divided state (internally as reflected in our actions and words and externally as reflected in culture. And from a developmental point of view, Slayerment rises to the top of the developmental hierarchy here, as he cares to be respectful to others, even in the face of extreme rudeness and name-calling, he cares to write with proper grammar, spelling and punctuation, and his ideas are progressive and clearly based on much study of the subject. I have never met any of the participants and do not know them in any 7nt3eway, but I thought the the distinction between developmental and dominator hierarchy (based on Clare Graves and Don Beck’s Spiral Dynamics model) was appropriate here, as well as evident.

Is it possible to use our real names? It is more difficult for me to take «anonymous» as seriously as someone courageous enough to identify self.

There’s a big difference between National Socialism (NAZI Party) vs. Socialism. It’s time the people of the USA get an education.

capitalism is a socio economic policy for idiotic propogised retards.
Consumerism based on wasted resources with no social goal besides a class divide between a few rich and mass poverty. Most popularly summerised by south, inbred, republican, outdatedness funded by huge unethical corporations and deals for sponsoring and law changes. It ignores all it’s flaws in the shout of competition which is as futile as a country so economically powerful and rich with massive resources wasted within a petty century. I’ll giove you a hint this great country of liberty not long ago sterilised the disabled and poor and the military nowingly inflected over 400 soldiers with diseases like test rats

I think the worst thing isn’t the completely over the top couldn’t be any more bias chart. It is your adamant belief in it that you are right that is the worst thing. Enough people have shown quite blatently in so many respects how wrong it is in every way, yet it is just dismissed. It brings me to the conclusion that the CIA have had you brainwashed, you are of severe low mental intelect or finally that you get things set in your head and your arrogance and ego completely overide all ability to reason and be logical.

Thank you for arguing against the points in my post. I always love an intelligent conversation. Oh wait.

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read. The worst thing about it is I expect you are not one of the 1% who benefit from the laissez-faire capitalist system. The system works because it convinces people to tolerate it in the belief they will one day be rich too. Social democracy is about the redistribution of wealth through tax rebates, national health care etc, not everyone living in hovels. Can you not see how unchecked corporations and democracy don’t work together. Capitalism in it’s current state isn’t working, because it is elitist, capitalism doesn’t need to go, it needs to be fixed.

On the contrary, Capitalism benefits everyone. Socialism benefits a few people. The current system we have right now is called Socialism. So if anything needs fixing it is that.

Our professor favored authoritarianism, the one which includes communism and fascism. He does not favor on democracy wherein capitalism and socialism fall under. He said that for a country to be developed and for its people to be disciplined, there is a need of force. Because if we stick on democracy, people would just ‘take for granted’ the freedom and their human rights. Can u give me a broader opinion about this? I’m a freshman college student and I want to know more about economic systems.

What form of government do we have? Do you really know? If you think we are a democracy, you really need to watch this video for a reality check.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE&fe

1. Reasserting American Exceptionalism. The Founding Fathers believed in American Exceptionalism because we are the only country in history that recognizes that power comes from God to each citizen personally. The citizen is personally sovereign. The citizen then loans power to the state. The state does not loan power to the citizen. This is the opposite of Obamaism.

2. Competing with China and India. We must commit ourselves to undertaking the necessary reforms so that we can become the most productive, most creative, and most prosperous country in the world. These economic requirements are our basis for a national security system that enables us to be the safest and freest country worldwide. If we take seriously the importance of competing with China and India, we will be the dominant country on the planet for the next hundred years. However, if we do not have the courage to compete with China and India, we will rapidly cease to be safe and will rapidly cease to be free. Rather than complaining about how China and India have saved their money, maintained trade surpluses, and weathered the economic crisis well, as President Obama has done, we must focus on how we can reform ourselves dramatically.

3. Ending the Bubble of Government. Government is too big, too expensive, too in debt, and it is not going to want to change. Like the information technology bubble in 1999, the housing bubble in 2007, and the Wall Street bubble in 2008, the fourth bubble that is government threatens our economy. Government employee unions are the new elite, and we need a replacement model.

4. Telling the Truth About Radical Islamism. The Obama administration is living in a fantasy world; they won’t tell the truth about our enemies. We must have the courage to tell the truth about radical Islamists, and we must have the courage to act on that truth. We must identify our opponents, be honest about the scale of the threat, and undertake a grand strategy to defeat radical Islamism.

5. Empowering Every American to Pursue Happiness. Since we truly believe that every American is endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights – among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – then we must be determined to go into our country’s poorest communities, whether it is in the valley, the inner city, or poor, rural areas. We must change the culture; we must change the bureaucracy; we must change the tax code; we must do whatever it takes to ensure that every American is truly capable of pursuing happiness, as they have been endowed by their Creator with that right. When conservatives are truly serious about all American citizens having the right to pursue happiness, we will create a 75% majority, and we will be able to offer our children and grandchildren a vastly better future than the bureaucratic welfare state of dependency, coercion, and ineffectiveness we face today.

With a movement of citizens all across this land, we can replace the Left and bring America back to the country it should be.

I noted in your chart, that you omitted the republican form of government. That is to be expected, since there is only one nation on Earth with that form, and it was abandoned in the 1820s for the democratic form.

The people of the state, as the successors of its former sovereign, are entitled to all the rights which formerly belonged to the king by his own prerogative.
Lansing v. Smith, (1829) 4 Wendell 9, (NY)

At the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people and they are truly the sovereigns of the country.
Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dall. 440, 463

It will be admitted on all hands that with the exception of the powers granted to the states and the federal government, through the Constitutions, the people of the several states are unconditionally sovereign within their respective states.
Ohio L. Ins. & T. Co. v. Debolt 16 How. 416, 14 L.Ed. 997

In America, however, the case is widely different. Our government is founded upon compact. Sovereignty was, and is, in the people.
[ Glass vs The Sloop Betsey, 3 Dall 6 (1794)]

Sovereignty itself is, of course, not subject to law, for it is the author and source of law; but in our system, while sovereign powers are delegated to the agencies of government, sovereignty itself remains with the people, by whom and for whom all government exists and acts.
[Yick Wo vs Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356, 370 (1886)]

FYI: Citizens are subjects, by definition. There is no such thing as a «sovereign citizen». But there are sovereign American people (non-citizen nationals).

Fascism = Socialism for the rich and Capitalism for everyone else
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I totally agree that capitalism is the best economically but you also have to include the fact that capitalism promotes greed. All i am saying is that there comes a point when capitalism becomes harmful for the common good of everyone and that regulations are necessary for the protection of the common. Socialism isn’t really that all bad because they protect the common interest of everyone (spreading the wealth is not evil).

I’m not a socialist and I really like capitalism but can’t the two co-exist. Can’t they socialize needs and capitalize wants so that everyone else get’s a piece of the cake even if they only get enough for living. Just a thought.

The thing about «lesser human» that is really not cool. It’s totally subjective but still, calling non-american lesser is really bad. I mean what does one takes to actually be more culturally superior than others? Is it because they affect other cultures so that makes them superior? If that is what you are saying then I agree about antispin’s arguments. I’m not going to debate. Calling other humans lesser is morally wrong period. I’m american and white but i like other cultures (I will not point out a specific one). And honestly speaking, the only reason why america have its own cultural identity is because of the collection of other cultures from other nations and put it together to bring out a new one. So actually the culture you are talking about is a piece of everyone else’s culture and that doesn’t make you a superior human.

My advice, refrain from referring to humans as lesser. I suggest you call them less fortunate to avoid some raising of eyebrows in the future.

“Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” (Acts 17:11)

Your chart is good. A little biased but good. Two problems with your chart. The Nazis were not fascists. They were an ideology all there own who combined different elements from many different ideologies such as socialism, fascist, and capitalism but they were not pure fascist. The second is that capitalism is not a form of government but an economic system.

What’s The Difference Between Socialism vs. Communism?

WATCH: How To Use The Terms «Socialism» vs. «Communism»

What is socialism?

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.

S ocialism is a social theory … makes sense. It theorizes that a collective cooperation of citizens will make all governmental institutions public. For example, no one will receive a healthcare bill when going to the doctor because they, and everyone else, have paid a hefty amount in government taxes. That’s where the collective cooperation comes in.

What is communism?

Russia gave communism a bad name when it reigned as the USSR. It was here that thousands who were seen as threats to the state—artists, authors, intellectuals, even those who practiced religion—were sent to be slaughtered or exiled … uh, yikes. I guess you could call it socialism gone bad.

Although the USSR fell way back when, 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.

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

How are they different from democracy?

Democracy is “a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.” The Greek demokratia is derived from demos, “common people,” and kratos, “strength.”

Basically, in a democracy, the head of state is usually a president, and the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote (which is then exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them). Capitalism is part of democracies (not communist or socialist countries). The community as a whole does not own all of the property and wealth in a democracy.

Who invented socialism and communism?

Our modern ideas of socialism and communism tend to come from what Karl Marx outlined in The Communist Manifesto and what was later implemented in Russia by Vladimir Lenin and his followers (the Bolsheviks). Marx’s manifesto called for a complete overhaul of capitalist systems of the time. It advocated for the working class (the proletariat) to uprise against the aristocracy and other elites (the bourgeoisie), followed by the implementation of a new society where everyone was equal. That sounds great on paper, but the way it played out in Russia was a bloody revolution (including the arrest and execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family). In the 1920s, Joseph Stalin took over, and he established a completely totalitarian regime. Stalin’s government was marked by widespread famine, poverty, and death.

What countries are Socialist or Communist?

Modern-day Russia is neither socialist, nor communist. That ended in 1991. However, today, North Korea self-identifies as socialist, and it operates in a very similar way to Stalin’s USSR. China went through a Communist revolution not long after Russia did, and today they self-identify as “socialist with Chinese characteristics.”

It’s not all doom and gloom, though. Many Nordic countries operate as social democracies. This means they blend a lot of “socialist” policies (like providing state healthcare, social security, and worker’s compensation) with certain “capitalist” features (like private property and the democratic process).

To read more about other government words, take a look at our slideshow!