Socialism and Communism

Danny Katch offers brief and lively introductions to the basics of socialism.

[LoneWolf-jevr]

Socialism and communism could've worked if "people at the top/from the above" haven't got or weren't corrupted in the first place because the moment you realize there's "someone at the top/from the above", you know there's corruption.
However, it doesn't mean that if you're not corrupted that you shouldn't become competition for "those from the above".
I'm familiar with a handful of people who did that and are now "the enemies of "the free world" ".

[adellutri]

Thank you for this concise, helpful, and amusing explanation of something that I never really understood!

[hopebroidery]

The way you describe yourself (and how others would describe you) is a friend 👀 of mine, exactly, lol, can’t wait to show this to him haha

[ianweniger]

hey comrade... are you planning a new edition of your book or are all these vids prep for an upcoming agitprop tour? Either way, good on ya!

[BartAnderson_writer]

That's a reasonable explanation.
Historically there's been a huge difference between the two, .
WW1 was the breaking point, when social democrats ("socialists") supported their governments. Those who opposed the war came to he identified as communists.
The pattern continued for the rest of the century, with social democrats tending to support foreign wars, e.g. Vietnam.

[CountOrlok]

Rather undialectical and revisionist explanation especially since scientific socialism, which is communism, isn't utopian in nature. Utopianism is not the goal and utopian visions aren't grounded in a materialist worldview nor does it produce good praxis. The real difference, linguistics aside, is that socialism is more about the transitional process of dismantling capitalism through the establishment of the workers state, the seizure of the means of production and distribution, and the collectivisation of materials, whereas communism is the outcome of that process when capital, state, and money have all been abolished, dismantled, or made so redundant as to expire.