Comparison

[adreamofequality]

Does anyone have any quick descriptions of socialism, fascism, communism, and marxism cause im a little confused about which is which.

[codyvo]

Well first sort them out, I think that pretty much everyone on this site can agree fascism is way differant than the rest. And by differant I mean worse, fascism is totalitarian takeover of a country by a dictator and his oppressive regime, for example: Hitler in Nazi Germany and the founding father of fascism enito Mussolini in fascist Italy. Now the others, since I am not nearly the most educated person on this issue on the forum, I shouldn't be the one to give you an outright definition to live by but I'll give you some of the basics. Marxism is the belief of Karl Marx's writings, and since I am a novice student on his teachings I won't go into them. Communism (as we think of it today), is largely based on Marx's writings so is very closely related to Marxism, it is the belief of a classless and stateless society in which everyone is treated equally by pay and other services provided to the public. Socialism, is also very closely related to communism but it is slightly less extreme in some senses, socialism does not believe in an entirely stateless society, and many socialist believe in a non-violent overthrow of the government, like democratic socialists. You should also try to learn more about anarchism another belief very closely related to communism. I feel that I should also mention that one of all these leftist groups main priorities is protecting the worker and workers rights, which is why the communist party is often referred to as the workers party. That is really just a very basic overview, like I said, I am not the best one to explain these things to you but I did my best.