What's the Difference between Socialists and Communists?

Reaganite Republican ^ | 18 December 2012 | Reaganite Republican

[Oztrich Boy]

I learnt my politics 50 years ago, from a work that was 30 years old then.

British childrens author Richmal Crompton has a 12 years old character (who knew about these things) explain it in her short story "William, Prime Minister"(1929)

“There’s four sorts of people tryin’ to get to be rulers. They all want to make things better, but they want to make ’em better in different ways. There’s Conservatives an’ they want to make things better by keepin’ ’em jus’ like what they are now. An’ there’s Lib’rals* an’ they want to make things better by alterin’ them jus’ a bit, but not so’s anyone’d notice, an’ there’s Socialists, an’ they want to make things better by takin’ everyone’s money off ’em, an’ there’s Communists an’ they want to make things better by killin’ everyone but themselves.”

Over the years I have tuned these opinions, but found no need to greatly alter them.



*Nota bene: this refers to the limited government classical liberal. Not the progressives masquerading as liberals only found inside the United States of America

[Haddit]

Thanks, the word “Holodomor” should be in everyone’s vocabulary. Those pictures in Bing are disgusting.

[Verdelet]

Zagląda­li do kufrów, zagląda­li do waliz,
nie zaj­rze­li do du­py - tam miałem soc­ja­lizm.

Czesław Miłosz - Polish poet, eseist, Nobel Prize winner


I'll do my best to translate it into English.

They looked into my trunks, they looked into my suitcases,
They didn't look into my ass - that's where I had (what I thought about) socialism.