[canalabamian]

This is as concise of an explanation that I have seen. I copied from a post a saw here on FR a few years ago.

Economic definition:

Capitalism: Production and distribution run by private sector.

Socialism: Production, private. Distribution by government.

Communism: Production and distribution run by government.

Fascism: Use of force to impose political will.

I'm not an economist or a polysci major, but it helped me understand more clearly.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

The debate is whether it is an economic or political system....or both. It essentially is allowing the free market to operate but the government, not the citizen consumer, picks winners and losers.

Our children are creatures of emotion and not thought...way to go NEA

[gattaca]

Now they are taught social justice and capitalism is unfair.

[lizma2]

Thanks

I read years ago in an old in an old encyclopedia (My grandma’s Funk and Wagnall’s???) that Fascism is a form of socialism where government doesn’t control private property and enterprises by ownership but by regulation.

I think the force comes later.

Bammy got pretty far. Who knows how far PIAPS would have gotten. I don’t think she would have any problem using force if we didn’t own so many evil guns. Even Hitler had enough sense to registered and confiscated guns before he started murdering his citizens.