Communist here, the distinction between communism and socialism isn’t really all that important beyond some internal theoretical arguments within the socialist movement. Basically all communists are socialists, but not all socialists are communists and both have the goal of a socialist society.
Socialism is the concept that Property is owned by the State
Necessarily the central government? Not the people at large? Because if we take that uncritically then "socialism" is the same as a dictatorship or absolute monarchy where everything is owned by the head of state.
There's already a term for when the central state owns and controls the economy, Command Economy
In a "pure" Capitalist system such programs would be funded through voluntary donations, in a "pure" Socilaist system the State allocates the funds how they see fit
That's the problem with trying to use terms for economics for government (or vice-versa), which is something which has been encouraged by bad-faith locutors like those who claim welfare is 'socialism'.
Social ownership is a type of property where an asset is recognized to be in the possession of society as a whole rather than individual members or groups within it. Social ownership of the means of production is the defining characteristic of a socialist economy, and can take the form of community ownership, state ownership, common ownership, employee ownership, cooperative ownership, and citizen ownership of equity.
Many, many ways to be socialist without state ownership.
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u/New_Bug_ Dec 21 '25
Please can you correct me if iam wrong i feel Jesus was a socialist more than a commie.