The Socialist System or Socialism is a political, social and economic order that It is based on the property and collective administration, or in its defect state, of the means of production, and on the other hand it promotes a progressive disappearance of social classes.
Political system that promotes an administration in charge of society or the state and the progressive disappearance of social groups
In other words, in this type of system, economic resources fall under the power of the population in question and there is no space for property, precisely the latter is one of the great battles that the socialist system gives.
Likewise, we call the Socialist System the political and philosophical theory that was opportunely developed by the German philosopher Karl Marx and the political movement that struggles to establish the aforementioned political, economic and social system.
The main premise posited by the socialist system is the regulation by the state of how much economic and social activity occurs and the correct and equitable distribution of the goods obtained after the production process. Along with this issue, he argues that administrative control within the system must be in the hands of the workers, while democratic control of civil political structures must fall into the hands of the citizens.
It should be noted that the ulterior objective of socialism is the construction of a society in which there are no social classes subordinate to others, a situation that can be achieved either through revolution, natural social evolution, or by implementing institutional reforms.
Although since its appearance on the political scene, socialism has been re-defined and interpreted several times, depending on the interlocutor on duty and the "political color", for the most part, the ideals expressed by the multiple proposals have been found linked to common good, social equality and interventionism by the state.
Support and criticism
The socialist system would reach its peak during the last century in the european communist bloc, the Soviet Union and the communist states of Asia and the Caribbean. Currently countries like China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Libya they are governed under a socialist system.
Throughout history the socialist system has been blessed by many theorists and also by various nations that we have just pointed out adopted it as a form of government, but we must also say that it has received fierce criticism that took particular care to mention its most fragile points ...
The concentration of economic decisions in the hands of a small and select group will have severe problems when processing the enormous amount of information that is produced and this will cause inconveniences when taking the correct measures. This is one of the main weaknesses that has been attributed to the socialist system.
On the contrary, in those systems where the economy is free, that is, in the free market, the information that is displayed and generated can be processed and managed by all the actors involved and this will inevitably increase in efficiency and development.
This reductionist idea that socialism proposes was one of the issues that has been criticized the most throughout its history.
Even history itself has shown that the free market economy, in which the actors respect each other, produces greater benefits than in those in which it is the only one in charge of running the economy.
One of the examples of this that we are saying is undoubtedly the Island of Cuba, a nation that opted for the socialist system since the Cuban Revolution back in 1959 when Fidel Castro took power and that to date is in the most absolute backwardness and not to mention the economic problems that threaten it, even with the openness that it has begun to give in recent years after Castro's departure and the arrival of his brother Raúl to power.
