No. Communism is an authoritarian system for controlling production and distributing wealth. Socialism can function in a democratic system as a restraint on capitalism.

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Communism has to stop being used as a political slur to wreck a candidate’s credibility and to fearmonger and intimidate.” ...

Are pure capitalism and true communism just extreme ideas that could never actually work? While many countries claim to ...

I agree with the first two sentences of Jack McWherter’s Feb. 9, letter about compromise. However, he leaves me no choice. I have to educate him. First, socialism and communism are two different types ...

The protests roiling our college campuses have provided yet another opportunity for the perennially disgruntled to call for the end of America's democratic form of government and system of free market ...

What is basically wrong with capitalism? Ask a number of socialists and you will get a number of different answers. These will depend on their vision of what social ism might be like and on their ...

Re “Socialism” (Letter, Feb. 12): Everyone talks about socialism, but hardly anyone defines it. It used to be that socialism and communism were used interchangeably, but it makes no sense to use two ...

KARL MARX, the founder of materialistic socialism, is recognized by economists as one of the three or four greatest minds who have contributed to the progress of economic science. What he did was to ...

THE various schools of socialism, including Communism, accept as a fundamental proposition that international unity of the masses, and more particularly of the industrial workers, will not only ...