Capitalism vs Communism

Government should not interfere in relations between workers and business owners.

• Communism

• Capitalism

The workers will rise up and overthrow the privileged class.

• Communism

• Capitalism

"Private property will cease to exist. The people will own the means of production"

• Communism

• Capitalism

The replacement of the bourgeois by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution. The abolition of the proletarian state, i.e., of all states, is only possible through ‘withering away.’

• Communism

• Capitalism

“. . . They [the Communists] openly declare that their ends can be attained [achieved] only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!” — Friederich Engels and Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, 1848

• Communism

• Capitalism

"Leave it alone" "Let go" "hands of Government"

• Communism

• Capitalism

In this system people make all economic decisions based on their own self-interest. In a pure __________ system, only

the forces of supply and demand control the economy.

• Capitalist

• Socialist

• Communist

• Mercantilist

In ___________, individuals own both private property and the means of production (factories, machines, tools, etc.).

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Communism

• Mercantilism

In ___________, the government/people as a group own all property and the means of production. Goods and services are shared equally.

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Communism

• Mercantilism

No social classes

• Communism

• Capitalism