Comparing Communism And Hard Work

Socialism is a response to capitalism, and it is a concept that individuals cannot have privately owned land, business, or money and the whole working community controls the factors of production. This system would lead to equality in work, and also helps the less successful people which means that the wealth is distributed equally even people who are not that successful. Communism is a branch of socialism as well, but they differ as communists believe in violent revolution and it is controlled by a government, whereas socialism does not believe in skipping steps and it runs by working class. The main aim of socialism is to improve social justice and to narrow the gap between the poor and the rich, and to believe in equality in everything.

The workers who want to work hard can’t work for the betterment of themselves, as they have to benefit the whole community and even the poor people. Plato creates a “metaphor of the metals”, which would help people to fit into the community, can recognize their profession and excellence. Gold represents abstract intelligence, silver represents practical intelligence and lastly, the base metal represents physical intelligence. But in the system of socialism, this wouldn’t work because socialist economy takes away the wealth from the successful people; it demotivates people to work hard and very strongly encourages poverty. Hard work has no reward in the system of socialism. There can’t be any form of development in the society under socialism as it discourages change and innovation; but instead wants to have a simple society with workers providing services and doing what their best at to benefit the whole community. Another defect in socialism is that, it discourages private property rights and most of the property is publicly owned in which government owns everything and guarantees to distribute wealth equally among the community. There is no free market