Originally Posted by
theengel
Again: Where do they differ in specific issues?
In other words, in an issue such as healthcare, how would communism differ from socialism, in it's practice?
In a socialistic society, the spending of money and the making of money are not free, just as in communism. It doesn't really matter WHO controls it, what matters is that a doctor cannot decide to charge the prices he wants to the customers he wants and be paid according to what he charges. We could demonstrate hundreds of ways to accomplish this, and give such systems different names, but in the end, the doctor is not free to enter into commerce as he sees fit. The market does not decide his fate--someone or something else does.
The reason such systems fail, over and over again, is because the doctor has no reason to become a better doctor. He has no reason to innovate and find new ways to answer old problems. All doctors in such systems are kept on the same, level field, because it would be 'unfair' to allow a different class of clients to receive a different level of care.
All the leftist philosophies are just new names for the same systems. And they all punish innovation and hard work.
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