Haha plz don ' t judge ! I am doing my best to beat this event with what I got . I got to earn 20 medals to dokkan my both cell <| sep |> I think it would be better to answer these questions on the basis of socialism though , it ' s probably what you ' re referring to . 1 . Socialism is a dictatorship , a democracy and a one party system . That might seem contradictory but it ' s actually easy to grasp , especially if you read State and Revolution . Basically , it is a dictatorship of the proletarians and peasants , a dictatorship of the majority over the minority . This means the workers and peasants have full control over the state apparatus and thus have democracy , while the rich business owners don ' t and are subdued till they disintegrate as a class . It ' s also a one party system . This one party is the vanguard of the whole society and makes its decisions through the Soviets or workers ' councils . In a semicolony , this can be applied a little differently , allowing the national bourgeois to survive for a while to help develop the economy but pacifying them to make sure they can ' t suppress the workers read Mao ' s On New Democracy and On the People ' s Democratic Dictatorship . But another thing is that socialism is also a dying state . Over time as socialism spreads across , the people get used to planning and making decisions as a community that they don ' t need the state anymore and eventually the state dies out . Once that happens , there will be communism , which is stateless , classless and moneyless . 2 . In a way , socialism is . It is authoritarian against the old oppressing classes and gives power for the old oppressed classes . I mean , even modern society works this way . It is authoritarian for the big corporations and authoritarian against the workers and peasants . Under socialism , this would be reversed , now authoritarian for the worker majority and authoritarian against the bourgeois minority . 3 . Socialism keeps the church and state separate . IMO I don ' t think the church should be demolished because it will simply die down on its own as class contradictions are resolved through proletarian victory , though other communists might have a different answer . Under the communism the church would have died already . People believing in religion might still survive but they wouldn ' t have an apparatus by which to force their beliefs on others which is what the church does . 4 . It ' s hard to condense everything in a small bullet but I ' ll do what I can . MarxismLeninismMaoism sees that the world revolves around class contradictions . This is not unique to it , as Lenin states . What ' s unique to it is that these class contradictions can be resolved by the revolution of the oppressed working classes , which would lead to a destruction of classes themselves giving us a classless , moneyless and stateless world . This comes from the dialectical viewpoint that sees reality as contradictions in motion . But not only that , it proves it which makes its philosophy dialectical materialism by analyzing political economy . Here are some stuff I suggest you read to pin the very basics downWhy Socialism ? by Albert EinsteinThe Principles of Communism by Frederick EngelsThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe German Ideology by Karl MarxKarl Marx by Vladimir LeninThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninWhat is to Be Done by Vladimir LeninReform and Revolution by Rosa Luxemburgthe Foundations of Leninism by Joseph StalinDialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph StalinOn Contradiction , On Practice and Oppose Book Worship by Mao ZedongQuotations From Chairman MaoOn Protracted War by Mao ZedongOn New Democracy and On the People ' s Democratic Dictatorship by Mao Zedong 4 . Many reasons . Capitalism is an oppressive structure . All social problems , homophobia , racism , misogyny etc . , have been caused by this social structure . There ' s nothing the businesses won ' t do to keep in power . Then in places like America , they hand this oppression down by extending it to other countries through imperialism . It must be noted however that communism and socialism aren ' t just opposites to capitalism , they ' re sort of developments to it , but in a revolutionary way where the people themselves advance in history by destroying the oppressive forces . 5 . Socialism is the transition to communism . The goals of socialism , generally , is to hand state power to the proletarians and peasants , to destroy oppression in general , to centralize the means of production to proletarian and peasant control , to rebuild the economy from what would be left after the revolution and to spread socialism to other countries not by invasion of course but supporting and helping militant movements . This would eventually transition to communism once the whole world becomes socialist and the level of economic development is very high . 6 . Neither . The conservatives are mainly opportunists and actively support oppression while the liberals are reactionaries who don ' t actively do anything to help the toiling masses . Mao Zedong ' s Combat Liberalism is a good work for this .