Sunday, February 16, 2020

Socialism: A Brief Taxonomy

The most striking and frequent blunders are the identification of socialism exclusively with Marxism, the confusion between the concepts of socialism and communism, and the claim that fascism and National Socialism belong to the right, to name a few.

The contemporary meaning of socialism often runs along the lines that it is a politico-economic theory in which the means of production, wealth distribution, and exchange are supposed to be owned and regulated by the community as a whole.

The wording implies a narrow understanding of socialism from the point of view of materialist and positivist currents of socialism but does not fully encompass the features exhibited in antimaterialist, anti-Cartesian, and Kantian members of the socialist family.

Socialism is a set of artificial socioeconomic systems that are characterized by varying degrees of collectivization of property, or consciousness, or the redistribution of wealth.

Revolutionary Syndicalism, Anarcho-syndicalism, and Guild Socialism are non-Marxian currents of socialism, meaning that they did not adhere to the tenets of scientific communism.

National Socialism is a non-Marxian flavor of socialism, based on the racial and pseudo-scientific theory of the superiority of Aryans.

National Socialism pursued complete collectivization of the consciousness, partial socialization of the means of production, and aggressive wealth redistribution as a method of achieving a socialist paradise for das Volk.


https://mises.org/wire/socialism-brief-taxonomy

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