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Socialism, Marxism, Communism Socialism Central to the meaning of socialism is common ownership. This means the resources of the world being owned in common by the entire global population. But does it really make sense for everybody to own everything in common? Of course, some goods tend to be for personal consumption, rather than to share – clothes, for example. People ‘owning’ certain personal possessions does not contradict the principle of a society based upon common …

…of today’s situation which shows a back fall of decades in social development (backdraw of social services, mass unemployment, undermination of wage agreements to name but a few) it seems necessary more urgent then ever before to me, to think about a social order which gets rid of the limitations of capital to cope with important things like research, medicine, fight against poverty and so on, to make some steps forward in human development.