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Explain the difference between communism and socialism

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The main difference is that under communism, most property and economic resources are owned and controlled by the state (rather than individual citizens) under socialism, all citizens share equally in economic resources as allocated by a democraticallyelected government
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these are definitions from wikipedia

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Communism is a philosophical, social, political, economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

Socialism is a political, social, and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management of enterprises. It includes the political theories and movements associated with such systems.

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