Quote from: tomothy on January 22, 2016, 02:48:50 PM

Quote from: xyzzy099 on January 22, 2016, 02:23:55 PM

Quote from: JorgeStolfi on January 22, 2016, 01:59:15 PM

communism is a radical type of socialism.

In my understanding of the Communist Manifesto, that is not strictly correct. Marxist Socialism is a necessary intermediate stage leading to Communism, which is a classless, stateless society.

com·mu·nism
ˈkämyəˌnizəm/Submit
noun
noun: communism; noun: Communism; plural noun: Communisms
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

So what have we learned today? The same word can have multiple and rather vastly different meanings depending on your geographic location and historical understanding.

Can we get back to slinging some mud for core and classic? Thinking we might hit 370 again?

Read the Communist Manifesto if you want to know what Communism is. Below is Wikipedia's definition. None of these definitions, including the one you cite, invalidates the statement I posted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

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In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis common, universal)[1][2] is a social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money,[3][4] and the state.[5][6]