General Discussion

entierly different animals.

Pure communism, where each person has all they need and works according to their ability to do so is a neat idea. Egalitarian, everyone has thier needs met, government serves all equally.

Yeah, once human nature enters the room, that all falls apart....so, we've never really seen a successful communist society.

Pure socialsm runs into the same problem: greed.

Now, a combined socialsim/capitalism seems to work in europe, where people's needs are mostly met and there is still a consumer economy where some people can get wealthy, but there are at least some curbs on how much the wealthy can make the underclass suffer for their amusement.

What we have in the US? It sure isn't Democracy.