Socialists are not communists and vice versa. true communism is the ideal form of living as delineated in Moore's Utopia.
Socialism is the politics of envy, whereby the people who produce the wealth are despised by those who don't have the talent to do the same, as a result of their productivity they are often penalised by high taxation.
The stated aim of socialism is to raise everybody's living standards to the same level, what it usually ends up doing is lowering everybody's standard of living to the lowest common denominator.
Neither system works as a method of governing a country, mainly because idealism does not translate into workable policies.
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