[lbo-talk] Re: What's the Matter With Kansas (and other responses)

[ravi]

At around 11/11/06 12:56 am, joanna wrote:
> Diff between socialism and communism. ?
> 
> No doubt you will get a very scholarly reply from Yoshie and Carrol.
> 
> But, I think, off the cuff, most people will say that socialism is
> "demoratic" communism, while communism is communism led by the
> dictatorship of the proletariat. How that proletarian dictatorship is
> organized: in soviets, or a polit bureau, or a single uber leader -- I
> guess varies with circumstance. I think even with communism, the
> dictatorship of the proletariat, is meant to be transitional, giving way
> to a democracy at the point where class identities have been erased by
> lived reality .
> 
> But this is the uninformed definition.
> 

I appreciate the answer. I forget what in the thread prompted the
question from me...

	--ravi