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Democratic communism
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Democratic communism is a socio-economic system with communism as the economic basis and democracy as the governing principle. This entails that the means of production would be controlled and owned by the entire population and that political power would be in the hands of the people, whether through democracy that is representative or direct. Some argue that communism implies democracy, and that democratic communism is a redundant term. However, the term is often used to contrast genuinely democratic communism from the self-described "communist" ideologies that democratic communists consider totalitarian, such as Stalinism or Maoism. Democratic communists reject both democratic socialism and social democracy as forms of capitalism. Concept Communism is the communization of the economy and means of production own the whole population because all are the workers. In democratic communism, the entire population controls the economy through some type of democractic system. Directly contrasting this is state capitalism where a small group of ex-workers control the economy. The term "democratic communism" is used by communists who want to distance themselves from the Soviet Union and the other so-called "Communist states." Such forms of communism are hailed as communist in name alone, specifically for their lack of democracy. Democratic socialism is a previous system of democratic communism. See Also
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