How does liberalism differ from socialism?
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There are important and fundamental differences between socialism
and liberalism. When critics attempt to slander liberals by calling
them "socialists," liberals should immediately challenge
them to define the difference between liberalism and socialism.
If they cannot, or continue to claim that they are the same, liberals
should then chide them for being novices in political science,
unable to define even the most basic terms of the debate.
Socialism means that workers, not private owners, would own and control the means of production: factories, farmland, machinery, and so on. In democratic elections, workers would vote for 1) their supervisors, 2) their representatives to a local and national council of their industry or service, and 3) their representatives to a central congress representing all the industries and services.
- Socialism has been proposed in many forms, ranging from republics
to direct democracies, from centralized state bureaucracies to
free market anarchy. Political scientists do not view the "socialism"
nominally practiced by the Soviet Union as true socialism -- this
was, essentially, a dictatorship over workers by a ruling elite.
By comparison, liberals believe that private owners should own and control the means of production, formulate company policy, and have the right to select their own management team. Liberals would prevent them from abusing their powers through checks and balances like strong labor unions and democratic government.
- The political system associated with capitalism is called fascism. The political system associated with socialism is called communism. World War 2 and its aftermath proved that nether political system worked.
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