socialism is public ownership of the means of production, generally through the mechanism of the state. When/if the state is democratic, that is democratic socialism. If it is totalitarian, aka Stalinism, it is authoritarian, undemocratic socialism.
Communism is the projected phase of history after socialism, when there are no more classes and when the state itself "withers away," to quote Engels. It is a classless, stateless society.
Like Unix, there are different flavors of socialism.
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Date: 2009-03-24 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-24 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-25 05:06 am (UTC)Communism is the projected phase of history after socialism, when there are no more classes and when the state itself "withers away," to quote Engels. It is a classless, stateless society.
Like Unix, there are different flavors of socialism.
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Date: 2009-03-25 08:07 am (UTC)