This post is also under the Philosophy & Principles page of this blog.
First of all, the word is a misnomer, as advocates for the ideology of socialism believe that their ideas better serve society than competing ideas, such as capitalism. Nothing could be further from the truth. What socialism really should be called is coercion. Slavery would be an accurate name too.
Think about it, anytime you hear socialists, especially the likes of U.S. Senator and failed presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, or Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, talk about raising taxes, that is coercion. If you don’t consent to pay the taxes, you get forced into forfeiting your assets, and then get forced into jail. This does not benefit society, in fact it harms it in the most unethical and impoverishing manner.
While advocating higher taxation is the most detrimental aspect of socialism’s coercion, there are other forms of it too. Things like gun confiscation, forced mask wearing, coercive vaccine inoculations, restrictions on gasoline powered assets as part of the Climate Change(Global Warming and/or Green New Deal) agenda, are also forms of coercion that damage society, contrary to what advocates of socialism depend on the public, who tends to not care of have the ability to see through the deceptive fraud of socialism, to believe.
Communism is just a form of socialism, except with a different name. While socialism pretends to care about and maximize benefits to society, much like the root “social”, communism pretends to care about and maximize benefits to the community, hence the root “commun” in the name. Communism, like socialism, lies about the benefits it produces, hides the damage it does to civilization, and implements coercion, and thereby violated liberty, which is why communism too must also be mightily rejected.
I’ll leave my readers with these last few points and questions. How many socialist countries have avoided massive poverty, tyranny, genocide, and other horrific forms of diminished standards of living for the people? The answer is ZERO. How many people leave non-socialist countries to flock to the ALLEGED auspices, benefits, and beauty of socialist countries? The answer is also ZERO. That should tell you how obviously flawed and far from perfect socialism is, and why, contrary to what is sadly becoming popular belief, socialism is the worst ideology, politically, economically, practically, logically, ethically, and yes, socially too.