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CAPITALISM VS. SOCIALISM
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Capitalism•Founder: Adam Smith
•Private ownership of business and property
•Competition: encouraged
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Capitalism•Goal: Private business to compete
•Laissez Faire: abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market
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•Private businesses compete to produce the best products and services for consumers.
•The free market can solve economic problems through competition and free trade.
Capitalism
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•Pros •Competition encourages innovation•Economic incentives•Economic freedom
•Cons •Unequal distribution of wealth•Boom and bust cycles•Monopoly power
Capitalism
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Socialism•Founder: Karl Marx
•Government ownership of business and property
•Competition: discouraged
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Socialism•Goal: classless society
•Proletariat: workers, or working-class people, regarded collectively.
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Socialism•Economic system based on equality that would provide guaranteed healthcare, housing, jobs, educations, and pensions for all citizens.
•To carry out these costly public benefits, government would own the property and wealth of a nation and put them to use for the common good.
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Socialism•Pros
•Social equality•Economic equality•Medical equality
•Cons•Lack of competition•Few economic incentives•Government oversight
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Marx’s TheoryCapitalism
Class Struggle
Worker’s Revolt Socialism
Communism