How Socialism and Communism Are Pretty Much the Same Thing—At Least in How Most Americans See It

There’s a lot of talk about how socialism and communism are “different.” You’ll hear academics, economists, and ideologues split hairs over the technicalities. They’ll go on about Marxist theory, about how socialism is the step before communism, about how communism is stateless and classless while socialism still retains some state structure. And, sure, technically, they’reContinue reading “How Socialism and Communism Are Pretty Much the Same Thing—At Least in How Most Americans See It”