I often see these words used interchangeably, though as I understand it there is a difference between the two ideologies, no?
I often see these words used interchangeably, though as I understand it there is a difference between the two ideologies, no?
People say that because it’s true. There is nowhere outside of a few scattered households that has ever been the platonic ideal of either communism or socialism.
Communism of a sort existed…in tribes.
I’d count those as the scattered households.
The basic idea is the same. No state needed. People function to help each other, etc.
Sorry, I’m a big David Graeber guy and he made a point to discuss this in some of his work. It exists throughout history.
I don’t know if you’re in software, but IMO communism is like agile. It works very well at small scale (which is why products from startups are good), but once a community loses autonomy and division of labor becomes a thing…it’s over.
Socialism is an attempt at SAFE (scaled agile framework for enterprise). IMO it doesn’t really work, but I do like the idea of having markets where it makes sense, and having social programs that are not profit motivated or maybe even run by the government…so basically Bernie’s position.