Originally Posted by BradM

Definition: "A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy ..."

Definition: "The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved."

The only difference between the two systems listed above is one has a dictator and the other does not.

America is now socialist. You can deny it, or insist it's for the betterment of capitalism but get real and stop living in denial.

America now is one step away from Communism, it just needs an authority government.