Socialism Is NOT Communism

As a sole governing model, socialism doesn’t work

“The World In Our Hands” by the author

In America, most people’s knee-jerk reaction to the word “socialism” is that it is synonomous to “communism.”

In simple terms, communism is a system created to impose Marxist socialism as a model of governance. The following definitions are an over-simplification, but: 1) The Marxist ideal is a totalitarian socialist version is anti-capitalism and anti-free market economies where the state and industry are in the hands of the workers; 2) The captitalist ideal is a competition driven, private industry favoring free market economy where any individual may hustle to innovate to create and own society’s wealth engines.

We can all agree that neither of those individual models is a workable governing model for society. One would seem to suppress competition and, thereby, innovation (so the theory says happened with existing Marxist inspired communist models); while the other is proven to lead to expanding inequities in wealth distribution and worker justice, and is becoming increasingly dangerous to economic and societal success. It doesn’t seem to matter if the system is communist, authoritarian, democratic, or monarchical. In every instance where capitalism is unchecked, inequities and injustice…