Hey everyone. This is James Lindsay, and you were listening to the New Discourse's Bullets podcast where I give a short bullet point-like summary of a single topic from woke Marxism that we all need to understand

so we can beat it. And I get asked a certain question a lot and I thought, in fact, I got

asked this question again recently and was like, would you do a podcast? And I said, well, it's not

even worth a podcast. And that obviously is falsified because I'm doing a podcast on it.

But the question that I get asked a lot, well, among many, is what would you say is the main difference between socialism and communism?

Or does that matter? And sometimes people add in also Marxism. What's the difference between socialism, communism, and Marxism? And does it matter? And sometimes people add in also Marxism. What's the difference between socialism,

communism, and Marxism? And does it matter? And the answer is surprisingly a little bit complicated,

although we can say some stuff really simply right out of the gate. So we'll start with a very

simple thing, which is if we're looking at these as

social and economic and maybe even political theories, so social economic political theories,

socialism means that the state owns the means of production. It also means that the state that

owns the means of production is a also means that the state that owns the means of production is a socialist

state that's going to engage in socialist activity, which is to say that it's going to do a

redistribution of resources. The goal of a socialist economy or socialist sociopolitical

circumstance is to redistribute access to the goods of society,

those included, including kind of material goods, money and so on, capital, whatever,

but also the kind of cultural capital, social capital, so that everybody is made equal. We call that

program equity. Socialism and equity are actually synonyms. This is what the Soviets called

actual equality. And the idea is that there is going to be an economic basis for absolute

equality from one individual to the next. And there's also going to be a socio-cultural basis for absolute equality from one individual to the next. And there's also

going to be a socio-cultural basis for absolute equality from one individual to the next.

And so that's sort of the kind of extreme take on what the socialist state exists to do.

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