What is "socialism"? - An attempt to clear up myths/misconceptions

[VGPolyglot]

donathos said:

VGPolyglot said:

As opposed to the current economic system which requires a police force and military to sustain?

All right, I'll bite.

You think that socialism will remove the need for police and military? How would that work, exactly? Under socialism, people will not commit crimes? Countries will no longer struggle against one another for all of the various reasons countries have, throughout all human history?

The police and military are tools of class conflict, in order to keep the class differences. Of course there will still be problems in socialism, we're not looking for a perfect society, we're looking for a better society. Also, socialism is an internationalist movement.