JoeBloggs80

Exactly. Make hay while the sun shines I say

slapphead_otool

Wrong way around my misguided friend.

Socialism is an economic model.

Communism is a political model.

Communist countries in the twentieth century included Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Benin, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Congo, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Ethiopia, Hungary, Mongolia, Mozambique, Poland, Romania, Somalia, South Yemen, Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia.

Stephen

What a joke: you have no idea what you are talking about. NO country has achieved communism, not even the USSR, when it existed. Socialism is the transitional state on the way to Communism.

I fear you are mistaking someone calling themselves communist with actually being communist. Just like countries call themselves democratic when they are in fact no such thing.

And as for your...Socialism is an economic model. Communism is a political model....

That is just too stupid to respond to.

moneypenny20

And yet.... you did.

Amazulu

Stephen

If you read my reply you will see that I didn't

moneypenny20

You replied stating that you wouldn't respond because you considered the statement stupid. Therefore you did respond.

moneypenny20

You replied stating that you wouldn't respond because you considered the statement stupid. Therefore you did respond. Had you really not responded you would have ignored the statement completely.

Stephen

Dear oh dear

If you had any analytical skills you could see that I was responding to the post but in one part in particular, I refused to address, being as it is, so very ignorant.

But you don't have these skills, do you? Or are you just trolling

Yes I thought so.

commonwealth

well grow up steve, why can't you just swallow your pride and accept that we no longer live in the victorian age?

slapphead_otool

Socialism and communism are ideological doctrines that have many similarities as well as many differences. One point that is frequently raised to distinguish socialism from communism is that socialism generally refers to an economic system, and communism generally refers to both an economic system and a political system.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-...-communism.htm


Socialism is defined as "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods." Whereas, communism is defined as "a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy, and a single, often authoritarian party, holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people."
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/commu...socialism.html

etc etc etc

Might I suggest attending night school in your spare time, instead of making a fool of yourself on the internet.

moneypenny20

I love that twice today people have commented on posts of yours and you've accused them (us) both of trolling. Plank.

Stephen

And now it starts. The name calling.

Shame on you. The weakness shows.

moneypenny20

You seriously have to get a life. You accused me and another poster of trolling but you can't cope with me writing the word plank?

Stephen

A moderator who turns to abusing when they are losing an argument...

Shameful, really low-brow stuff.