2. SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNISM
•SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNISM
ARE TWO DISTINCT POLITICAL
IDEOLOGIES, ALTHOUGH THEY SHARE
SOME COMMON ROOTS.
3. SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
• IT IS A MODERATE OR REFORMIST BRAND OF SOCIALISM THAT FAVOR THE BALANCE
BETWEEN THE MARKET AND THE STATE RATHER THAN THE ABOLITION OF CAPITALISM. IT AN
IDEOLOGICAL STANCE THAT SUPPORTS A FULL BALANCE BETWEEN MAJOR CAPITALISM, ON
THE ONE HAND, AND STATE INTERVENTION, ON THE OTHER SIDE.
• IN THE 19TH CENTURY, IT WAS “ORGANIZED MARXISM”, SOCIAL DEMOCRACY BECAME
“ORGANIZED REFORMISM” BY THE 20TH CENTURY.
4. ORGANIZED MARXISM
-AS AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL
THEORY
ORGANIZED REFORMIST.
-FAVORS MODIFYING AN EXISTING STRUCTURE OR
INSTITUTION AS OPPOSED TO GETTING RID OF IT AND
REPLACING IT.
5. WHO CREATED SOCIAL DEMOCRACY?
The concept of social democracy goes back to the French
Revolution and the bourgeois-democratic Revolutions of 1848, with
historians such as Albert Mathiez seeing the French Constitution of
1793 as an example and inspiration whilst labelling Maximilien
Robespierre as the founding father of social democracy.
6. COMMUNISM
•IT IS AN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
SEEKING GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF
PRODUCTION AND SERVICES DIRECTED BY A PROCESS OF
SCIENTIFIC ADMINISTRATION AND UNIVERSAL ASSENT.
•IT IS AN EXTREME LEFT-WING IDEOLOGY BASED ON THE
REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST TEACHINGS OF KARL MARX,
CHARACTERIZED BY COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP AND A
PLANNED ECONOMY.
7. THREE DISADVANTAGES OF COMMUNISM
1. THE GOVERNMENT OWNS ALL THE BUSINESSES AND PROPERTIES
(THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION).
2. THERE IS NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
3. LARGE OR GEOGRAPHICALLY-BROAD POPULATIONS TEND TO BE
DIVERSE, MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO MAINTAIN A COMMON GOAL OR
SET OF RULES FOR SHARED EFFORT ANDRESOURCES.
8. Social democracy and communism are both ideologies that
aims for greater equality, social democracy operates within
the framework of a capitalist system, seeking to reform and
regulate it. Communism, on the other hand, seeks to
fundamentally replace capitalism with a socialist system and
eventually achieve a classless society. Social democracy
accepts the existence of private property and markets, albeit
with government intervention, while communism rejects
private property and advocates for the abolition of markets
altogether.
