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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Communism is the political offshoot of socialism I believe, capitalism has democracy.
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Strange statement.
Democracy is an old idea that came from Athens in Greece. Citizens vote to determine government policy, with various definitions of 'citizens' and levels of indirection on 'voting'.
Communism was put forward by Karl Marx as the inevidible result of social progress, in which human beings are no longer greedy, and work together towards the common good.
Capitalism is the theory that putting the means of production into the hands of those who produce is a good idea.
Socialism is Robert Owen's idea that cooperation should be the core part of economic philosophy, not competition.