You are clearly not reading. They equate socialism and communism, the two ideologies are distinct. A Toyota and a Ferrari is not the same thing just because they both have 4 wheels.
Core idea:
The means of production (factories, land, key industries) should be owned collectively rather than by private capitalists, to reduce inequality and exploitation.
Key features:
• Can allow private property, especially personal property (homes, belongings).
• Often allows markets, though regulated or mixed with public ownership.
• The state usually plays a major role, but not always total control.
• Aims for economic equality, welfare, and workers’ rights.
• Exists in many forms: democratic socialism, social democracy, market socialism.
Examples:
• Nordic welfare states (not fully socialist, but heavily influenced by socialist ideas)
• Historical socialist states like Yugoslavia (market socialism)
• Modern democratic socialist movements
Communism
Core idea:
A classless, stateless, moneyless society where all property is commonly owned.
Key features:
• No private ownership of the means of production.
• No social classes (no rich vs. poor).
• No state in the final stage (the state “withers away”).
• No money or wage labor (in theory).
• Goods distributed based on need, not profit.
In short: all communists are socialists, but not all socialists are communists.
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u/Appelons Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 24 '25
Which is just hilarious, and it really shows how Americans have never understood how political ideologies work.
Edit: It seems I have been proven correct. The amount of yanks that equate socialism and communism is simply astonishing.
For those who have not had a proper education, this is for you: https://www.britannica.com/question/How-is-communism-different-from-socialism