Socialism and Communism When comparing the ideologies of socialism and communism to liberalism it is easy to see many different approaches to defining personal freedom. The most basic issue to which socialist disagree with liberals is on the idea of human nature. Socialist thinkers do not agree whether there is such a thing as human nature but feel that human behaviors and values can be shaped to be social and cooperative through institutions created by …showed first 75 words of 1435 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1435 total…fell. It would be interesting to see his thoughts now since China has become a powerful nation and the Soviet Union has not. Both these countries had similar ideologies, which makes me believe that the ideologies will only work under certain situations. Capitalism would not work in China like it does in the United States and I do not believe Communism would have been as successful in the United States as it was in China.