What is the difference between dictatorial socialism & dictatorial capitalism?
They are both dictatorial. The difference is that one is socialism and the other is capitalism. Both can be dictatorial or tyrannical. Socialism is where the govt. provides goods and services. Capitalism is where goods and services are provided by private investment. Neither exists in its pure state. Every modern developed country is some combination of both. For instance, here in the US we are probably the most capitalistic country ij the world, but we have ‘socialized’ education, roads and bridges, police and fire protection, dams and electrical projects, a space program, disease prevention, and dozens of other things. Just because we’ve found that this is the best way to do these things. Some things just can’t be provided by private investment. ‘Dictatorial’ is not a economic term but a governmental term. Capitalism and socialism are not forms of government but of economy.
Its easy to mix up political and economic perspectives so to understand what either means you need to break them down; Socialism an economical term that means government control over over the economy. The government controls the market and in extreme cases even controls who works were. Capitalism is the essentially the economical philisophy that the best economy is the one that profits the most. True capitalism does not have government involvement. A dictatorship is a state ruled by a despot (be it a monarch, emperor, dictator or what have you). A despot is an totalitarian ruler who controls all aspects of government and influences all aspects of society. So if you combine a dictatorship with socialism you end up with a state similar to the soviet union. The government controls the economy and the ruler governs all. If you have a dictorial capitalist state you have a state similar to modern day China. The government still influences all aspects of society but they allow a free market e
Ideally, socialism and capitalism are economic policies which ought to run independent of legislative policy. But I’m going to assume that what you mean is a dictatorship stemming from the economic system and answer the question under that assumption. Both can occur. The ideal of socialism is to allow people to make intelligent decisions about how to run industries, but no one person or small group is allowed to leverage others’ labors in order to gain profits that aren’t truly earned. A person receives payment according to their individual work, and excess profits, rather than going to executive board bonuses or stock holders, go to the public. However, achieving this ideal necessarily involves government regulation or even outright government control. Unscrupulous public servants could take advantage of their position to take power for themselves. This has happened to varying degrees in Cuba, China, and the former Soviet Union, to name a few. The ideal of capitalism is that the marke
