Comparison between Socialism in the 19th Century and in the 20th


From Marxist ideals of a classless society and ultimate equality to the crude reality of oppression and extreme regulation from the part of the government, socialism has proven to be getting away from its fundaments to become an inchoate attempt of an impossible utopian system. The differences between the systems, for they should be considered totally different, are indeed numerous and, although they do part of the same basis, in the practice (URRS) the outrageous methods used by the red leader joseph Stalin could only be compared in equipoise with Nazism or fascism.


As a starting point, the socialist ideals of the 19th century include the disappearance of the state and of private property, as well as destroying the social classes, while the 20th century reality shows how Stalin made the communist party members the new high class of the country and imposed a totalitarian system where everything was controlled by the state. In addition, some ideas such as the organizations of workers, although in part granted in the way of soviets, were proven to be useless as the leader was a practically a supreme figure of power, an inexorable commander of the forces of law in the country, no one could defy him or else his existence would be propitious to be regarded as non-existent. Also, the ideas of equality of opportunities, stated as an important promise of socialism in the 19th century, was never really a factor in the URRS. Some People in the country could actually archive good status based in merits, although most were based in having good contacts, whereas some very qualified and intelligent people could be regarded as a social harm and sent to Siberia only for knowing dissidents or being in the wrong place the wrong time (it must be reminded that a dissident is just someone who disagrees with the state and thus is a harm).



To conclude, it can be said that regardless of the good ideas developed during the 19th century by the working class and some philosophers and economists (such as Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels) the socialist system imposed as a model by the Russians in the 20th century under the rule of joseph Stalin was only a totalitarian system which used its economic plans as a cover for its real repressive non socialist models in the time.

Data from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

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