Comparing Communism And Socialism
“Any cook should be able to run the country,” said Vladimir Lenin, a renowned Russian revolutionary and devout communist, while preaching the keystone principles of both communism and socialism. While similar, Communism and Socialism have many differences that create a minuscule divide between the two ideologies that can be seen by a negligent eye as the same.
First published in 1827 England, and five years later in France, Socialism became a large part of the region's history. Conveniently beginning in and around England’s Industrial Era and a pre-revolutionary France, Socialism prodded the two monumental moments along and helped to further history by piggybacking on the struggle of everyday people during the aforementioned events. Being …show more content…
With a main focus on destroying Capitalism, Communism made extensive changes to everything- pious, politics, and personal matters. Led by many figures, including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communism abolished religion, democracy, and private property.
Still a headlining topic, equality was something both Communism and Socialism touched on. While Communism believed that all people are the same- a garbage collector equal to a neurosurgeon equal to a factory worker- having believed that all had valuable roles in society and that society could not function without each of them and, since everyone was valuable, class systems didn’t make sense and were eradicated. Socialism took a less radical approach, believing that all people were important but there was a slight divide between the politically impressive and the working …show more content…
One such war would include the Cold War as The United States of America and Communist Russia had an ideological war. A bloodier, less recent, war would include World War II as The Allied Powers (Great Britain, The United States, and France) fought with The Soviet Union and Japan. While the reaction from outsiders is nothing unprecedented, the reaction of the people inside these regimes is one of fear and panic. The outcome has been predicted, by Thomas Jefferson, just years before the beginning of Socialism: “...when the people fear the government there is
First published in 1827 England, and five years later in France, Socialism became a large part of the region's history. Conveniently beginning in and around England’s Industrial Era and a pre-revolutionary France, Socialism prodded the two monumental moments along and helped to further history by piggybacking on the struggle of everyday people during the aforementioned events. Being …show more content…
With a main focus on destroying Capitalism, Communism made extensive changes to everything- pious, politics, and personal matters. Led by many figures, including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communism abolished religion, democracy, and private property.
Still a headlining topic, equality was something both Communism and Socialism touched on. While Communism believed that all people are the same- a garbage collector equal to a neurosurgeon equal to a factory worker- having believed that all had valuable roles in society and that society could not function without each of them and, since everyone was valuable, class systems didn’t make sense and were eradicated. Socialism took a less radical approach, believing that all people were important but there was a slight divide between the politically impressive and the working …show more content…
One such war would include the Cold War as The United States of America and Communist Russia had an ideological war. A bloodier, less recent, war would include World War II as The Allied Powers (Great Britain, The United States, and France) fought with The Soviet Union and Japan. While the reaction from outsiders is nothing unprecedented, the reaction of the people inside these regimes is one of fear and panic. The outcome has been predicted, by Thomas Jefferson, just years before the beginning of Socialism: “...when the people fear the government there is