• Crankenstein@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    You don’t need full communism, just make sure companies are owned by the workers

    “Companies owned by the workers” is communism. That’s literally what is meant by “shared ownership of the means of production”.

    The “means of production” is all the shit that companies own, such as the land, machines, buildings, raw materials, etc…

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      Socialism is the means of production owned by the state or the workers.

      Communism is a subset of socialism, where you have a classless society. Different communist doctrines have a different view on how to achieve that.

      Edit : clicked on the wrong reply button. Oh well