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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Janey made a post about democracy and communism being mutually exclusive. She half asserted/posed a question that one was a system of economics and the other was a form of government. I was posting that both are forms of government, and under them they usually have their own system of economics being socialism and capitalism respectively.
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Ah, gotcha.
Note that Communism isn't the same as Socialism, as far as Marx and Communists are concerned. Socialists are aware of and use incentives. A true marx-Communist society can only exist if the people themselves are 'beyond that'. Marx viewed (a flavour of) Socialism as an intermediate step between Capitalism and Communism.
I would hold that Capitalism, Socialism and Communism are all economic systems.
Democracy, Theocracy, Feudalism, Autocracy are all systems of government.
The term Communist has been used to describe a set of (mostly) Autocratic Socialist states.
I am not aware of a modern democracy that doesn't have at least some socialist leanings, nor capitalist leanings.