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    Dear fellow citizens, as your newly elected president of the United States of America. I am here to address my plan to restore our economy to it’s fullest glory, with Scientific Socialism! Our current economy is not working for our society. The free market economy only benefits some individuals and relies on the citizens to make decisions. Only a few individuals are able to have ownership of property or business, creating an inequality in society. In our free market economy we also have very limited

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    Have you ever given any time to actually fully understand why Socialism is a terrible thing? Most people will just jump on a bandwagon because a certain party says that it will give them items for free. It makes other people think that they are entitled to other people 's possessions. Making companies a public domain only because the government wants to be in control and make more profit. Making minimum wage a reasonably high price so that everyone will have the same wage even though some jobs are

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    Through my online class, I got the chance to learn about socialism, communism and capitalism. They are all different from each other even though there are some similar stuff between them there is a little thing that distinguishes each one from each other. In this paper, I will go through each term and how each and everyone is different from each other. First of all Socialism is a system of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state. It mostly relies on governmental

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    time, for this reason it is very important. However, in order to debate between Capitalism and Socialism, it is necessary to understand what the differences, advantages, and disadvantages are of both systems. In the dictionary it states capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country 's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Socialism is a social and economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and

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    while also preserving law, enforcing private contracts and creating competitive markets are including in the preservation of freedom. With that being said, a society in which socialism is the main ideology, cannot yield characteristics of democracy, as it does not guarantee freedom. Although there are many varieties of socialism and there is no single definition encapsulating all of them, none obtain political and economic freedom to citizens. In comparison, competitive capitalism advocates for political

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    how well the country runs. The proper role of government is capitalism because it gives the most freedom to the people. An important factor in how well the government works is their economic system. The three main economic systems are Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism.. communism is an economic system that has a ruler that stays in power and doesn’t leave until they step down or they die. In this economic system the government has near total control. They control people’s jobs, wages, and rations

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    state, it is also known as Marxism. Communism looked perfect on paper but it was the total opposite in practice, it was disastrous as being mentioned in (allaboutphilosophy.org). It's not that different from socialism it's just another type of socialism " Communism is a variant of socialism. It differs from it in this important

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    believed that capitalism should be replaced by socialism and eventually communism and it should be done through abolishing markets, prices and private property. To understand Marx’s ideas it is important to define capitalism socialism and communism. Capitalism can be defined as ‘an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state’. On the other hand socialism can be defined as ‘a political and economic theory

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    Communism is an extreme form of socialism in which most things are publicly owned. A communistic economic system is based on equality and expounds positive and negative effects. To begin, communism is based on equivalence for all members of a workforce. Communism is an “. . . economic doctrine that aims to replace private property . . . with public ownership . . . of at least the major means of production” (Ball). In fact, Christianity has also partially influenced communism. Holy Bible verses instructed

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    proletariat would become the ruling class all over the world (Kreis, S 2000) Marx proposed this theory of revolution based on Hegelian concepts of the dialectic. The philosophical and ideological aims put forward were to bring about his version of socialism, known as communism. During the winter of 1857 Marx produced an outline of his critique of the political economy in an unfinished manuscript called The Grundrisse (Fowkes, B 1997). Marx believed that deficiencies in the economy and social injustices

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