Socialism in 5 words or less?

[ibrown39]

Any ideas?

[Q]

Any ideas about what?

[tuwix]

System where people rule.

[Brutus]

Masses own modes of production

[Blake's Baby]

Classless stateless communal society.

[Anti-Traditional]

Socialism as a form of society, or Socialism as political theory?

[Jimmie Higgins]

The(1) self-liberation(2) of(3) the(4) proletariet(5):grin:

[roy]

cool fun happy world party

[Comrade #138672]

Collective ownership means of production.

[Comrade #138672]

Socialism as a form of society, or Socialism as political theory?There is hardly any difference.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

Workers control means of production.

[LeonJWilliams]

Well sort of anyway, it's pretty hard sticking to 5 words!

Socialism:

System where government owns everything

Communism:

System where government owns everything (but says the workers do)

Anarchism:

System where people run everything

[Brutus]

Workers control means of production.
What about the farmers who provide food?

[revoltordie]

socialism and communism are synonyms

[Thelonious]

Selflessness

[RedAtheist]

Here are a few I came up with for socialism and communism

Socialism: Democratically planned production for need

Socialism: Democratically planned production and distribution

Socialism: Economic forces under humanity's control

Communism: Like the above, but moneyless

Communism: The abolition of private property (whoops I copied that one from you know where)

Communism: No classes or economic inequalities

[Q]

Well sort of anyway, it's pretty hard sticking to 5 words!

Socialism:

System where government owns everything

Communism:

System where government owns everything (but says the workers do)



Verbal warning for trolling.

[Fourth Internationalist]

socialism:
Wokers' control means of production.

communism:
Utopic paradise of total awesomeness :D

[Flying Purple People Eater]

Rich tarts get the guillotine.

[Fourth Internationalist]

Rich fuckers get the guillotine.

Isn't that a bit harsh?

[Flying Purple People Eater]

Isn't that a bit harsh?

No, the blades are quite sharp.

[Skyhilist]

A better planet.

[Q]

A better planet.

... In red.

5 words, ey.

[Art Vandelay]

Stateless, classless society of free-producers (close enough 'of' shouldn't really count).

[Skyhilist]

... In red.

5 words, ey.

"Or less" says the title, so I went with less

[Ocean Seal]

IDK the Kapital is long.

[Q]

IDK the Kapital is long.

Not really. Capital is just about 600 pages and written in easily comprehensible language. Marx intended it to be read by the masses.

[Flying Purple People Eater]

Red flame total destroy world.

[Deity]

Freedom for the masses

[Futility Personified]

Emancipate the proleteriat, liberate humanity

That's exceedingly vague but I just wanted to join in

[Blake's Baby]

Rich tarts get the guillotine.

I think the call of 'harsh' was for 'the guillotine', not the 'rich fuckers'. Now you've changed it to 'rich tarts', expect to be infracted for sexist language.

[Conscript]

Rule of the commons.

[sixdollarchampagne]

While I love "Rich tarts get the guillotine," I prefer something from State and Revolution, like Socialism: Where workers run everything.

[Yuppie Grinder]

A Classless, Stateless, Moneyless Earth.

[Starship Stormtrooper]

Worldwide emancipation of the working-classes.

[Charles Marxley]

Radical Overturning of Social Conditions

[Stub]

You only need one word

Equality

[Flying Purple People Eater]

I think the call of 'harsh' was for 'the guillotine', not the 'rich fuckers'. Now you've changed it to 'rich tarts', expect to be infracted for sexist language.

Tart is sexist language?

[Fourth Internationalist]

Tart is sexist language?

It's a derogatory term that means a promiscuous woman or prostitute. Yeah, I had to look it up. Another word stolen from my vocabulary...

[Astarte]

transition between state and statelessness.

[Flying Purple People Eater]

It's a derogatory term that means a promiscuous woman or prostitute. Yeah, I had to look it up. Another word stolen from my vocabulary...

Are you serious!? I'd always thought it just meant a penis or something.

I sincerely apologise. I had no idea it carried this sort of connotation. The more you know..

[Q]

Still, a verbal warning for sexist language to Jam like a Jacobin.

[Narodnik]

Workers' control of production.

[Yuppie Grinder]

transition between state and statelessness.

No.

[Althusser]

Communism:
System where government owns everything (but says the workers do)

Elaborate

[Astarte]

No.

Hmm? Hey Q, is this "reply" considered trolling? I can't tell... one word replies that add zero value to discourse usually seem to fit the bill... in any event, the original poster asked for a 5 word definition of socialism. My understanding of "socialism" is it is the epoch of the withering away of the state and classes. I'm sorry you disagree, bud.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

Well sort of anyway, it's pretty hard sticking to 5 words!

Socialism:

System where government owns everything

Communism:

System where government owns everything (but says the workers do)

Anarchism:

System where people run everything

This is exactly what I think.
You must remember that this is a forum where the authoritarian left have the power, and they do not like it when the libertarian left expresses their beliefs. The fact that you were warned for troling proves this.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

This is exactly what I think.
You must remember that this is a forum where the authoritarian left have the power, and they do not like it when the libertarian left expresses their beliefs. The fact that you were warned for troling proves this.

That's like me saying anarchy is chaos and only followed by people who don't get communism, getting infracted for trolling, and then saying it was the evil libertarians are after me.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

Super Happy Fun Time Now.

[Art Vandelay]

This is exactly what I think.
You must remember that this is a forum where the authoritarian left have the power, and they do not like it when the libertarian left expresses their beliefs. The fact that you were warned for troling proves this.

Yeah cause the majority of the admins are anarchists...another gem from tra.

[The Real American Thinker]

socialism and communism are synonyms

Not necessarily.

[Ocean Seal]

Not really. Capital is just about 600 pages and written in easily comprehensible language. Marx intended it to be read by the masses.
Its considerably longer than 5 words though, and I think in standard print the volumes of the capital are well over 1000 pages.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

No more work for me.

[Q]

... and I think in standard print the volumes of the capital are well over 1000 pages.
Nope, Volume 1 is really not that long.

[Lucretia]

People treating others as people.

[MEGAMANTROTSKY]

When human needs are paramount.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Self liberation of the working class"

That was Uncle Charlies definition of socialism.

To be more concise.."worker's democracy".

[Captain Ahab]

Mankind's next great step.

[VinnieUK]

World common ownership, democratic control

[The Idler]

can't believe no-one has said;

Abolition of the wages system

[Slavoj Zizek's Balls]

One-liners not descriptive enough.

[cynicles]

The dictatorship of the proletariat.

[Tenka]

MOP controlled, automated; work abolished.

or

Proletarians take what's theirs; suicide. (as a class :rolleyes:)

[TheRedAnarchist23]

All your means of production are belong to us.

Not five words long, but it is cool.

[Comrade #138672]

Isn't that a bit harsh?Yes. We should just try to compromise and ask them to share their wealth with the rest of us.

If that doesn't work, we might have to say please.

[Brutus]

Shouldn't this be moved as it isn't an introduction?

[Binh]

"Unlimited democracy." -- Hugo Chavez

[Akshay!]

I once asked one of my religious friends to describe heaven. He replied (and I'm paraphrasing) "It's nothing like this world, and if I try to describe it in this world's language I would fail every single time. In fact, you and I can't even Imagine how beautiful it is, let alone Describe it in mere words." and my view about socialism is somewhat similar. We can say things like equality and freedom, but at the end of the day, a truly socialist world would be way more beautiful than that.

[Brutus]

I once asked one of my religious friends to describe heaven. He replied (and I'm paraphrasing) "It's nothing like this world, and if I try to describe it in this world's language I would fail every single time. In fact, you and I can't even Imagine how beautiful it is, let alone Describe it in mere words." and my view about socialism is somewhat similar. We can say things like equality and freedom, but at the end of the day, a truly socialist world would be way more beautiful than that.

And we'll never experience socialism or heaven!

[Dear Leader]

The abolition of capital.

[Goblin]

Classless, stateless society of awesomness

[Kalinin's Facial Hair]

Build a big Stalin statue.

[Akshay!]

And we'll never experience socialism

Why? :confused:

[Brutus]

Why? :confused:

Well, at best we'll experience the DotP, but socialism (used as a Synonym for communism) will take a long time to reach

[MacchineBox]

Utopia is a cooperative.

[Slavoj Zizek's Balls]

Definitely. Not. A. Utopian. Dream.

[MacchineBox]

Definitely. Not. A. Utopian. Dream.

Why do you say that?

[evermilion]

Development toward negation of class.

[Slavoj Zizek's Balls]

Why do you say that?

Because communism is one of many future possibilities. Society has many different routes of development from this very moment in time, not just one. It could recede into what Luxemburg called 'barbarism', it could evolve from it's current stage into a more advanced form of capitalism (which itself can branch off into differing categories), or it could be slowly eradicated/ended by a revolution along with a lengthy development towards communism/anarchy (the society).

Humans are certainly capable of abolishing the status quo and achieving a classless society. There are examples of miniature societies that have to exist under capitalism but promote equality and co-operation. If these societies can exist, not to mention the past existence of primitive communism, why can't we do the same but on global scale and without capitalism?

[Wings Of Redemption]

''Emancipation of the proletariat'', 'nuff said ;)

[VinnieUK]

No proletariat, just people living