Final-Fan said:
TheRealMafoo said:
SciFiBoy said:
Karl Marx never provided a detailed description as to how communism would function as an economic system, but it is understood that a communist economy would consist of common ownership of the means of production, culminating in the negation of the concept of private ownership of capital, which referred to the means of production in Marxian terminology. Unlike socialism, which is compatible with a market economy, a communist economy consists of local or communal democratic planning.
also from wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism |
From your link:
"As a political ideology, communism is usually considered to be a branch of socialism;"
So it's ok to include the communistic definition with socialism. |
But aren't you claiming to define socialism? If so, then even if we say that communism is a subset of socialism you cannot define socialism by describing facts that are only true of communism.
It's like this:
If socialism is "a car"
and communism is "a red car"
and you say "socialism can be described as an automobile that is red" then you're wrong.
Am I misinterpreting what you've been saying?
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Yes. I gave the Wikipedia definition of Socialism, and he said it was not socialism because it was Communism.
I then asked him to give me a economically socialistic country that met his definition. He said one does not yet exist.
To use your analogy, if I said “my car is socialistic”, he would then say “No it's not, because it's red”
