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Just look up the definitions of "-ism" and "-ize" to get your answer.

I think -ize...as in terrorize.. is the act in progress where -ism as in terrorism is the way of life.

both are from the german Ize is something a practice or role thus terroize the practice of terror, legalize you8 got it5 where as,
ism is in the beilief category
to socialize is a practice or role of being social
socialilsm is a belief in being social?
thanks pancho.

You may have a point Yichel.
Socialism is a concept by which a society perpetuates, and governs itself.
Socializing is what a society does to communicate, entertain, and pass on knowledge.

In latin Social means " of partners or allies ".

so then why is everyone so terrorized by solialism haha

Socialism means that companies are not privately owned. The USA is currently and always has been a capitalist society.

so·cial·ism
noun
any of various theories or systems of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by society or the community rather than by private individuals, with all members of society or the community sharing in the work and the products
a political movement for establishing such a system
the doctrines, methods, etc. of the Socialist parties
the stage of society, in Marxist doctrine, coming between the capitalist stage and the communist stage, in which private ownership of the means of production and distribution has been eliminated.

We Americans have been socialized to believe that all Socialism is evil.

its that old ism, gets you every time.

I believe in capitalism except when it infringes on the well being of the majority of the people. We need capitalism, and the means to be competetive and I have no objection to people getting wealthy by their own hard work. However I also believe that certain things that keep a country running, its people safe and its people healthy needs to be run by people who are not in it just for profit.

does this look captilistic?
Democrat Grover Cleveland vetoing "a bill to give (a mere) $100,000 to Texas farmers to help them buy seed grain during a drought:
Yet the same year gave wealthy bondholders $5 million by pricing them $28 above market value. "Rugged individualism" he called it

(1) Government Regulation of Railways from 1887which protected profits by no competition on the lines. The twenty acres on either side of the track given to railroad companies allowing Standard Oil to use the Railroad t drive out competitors.
(2) Waterways: Since the nation's founding, the government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding the development of rivers, harbors, canals, and other infrastructure, and continues to do it for business. (this was the Whigs platform, although pres Dewitt Clinton paid for the Erie canal. A huge boon for farmers in the northwest territory.
(3) subsidizing ship builders
(4) Government merely helped out by buying planes "for national defense" or whatever other reason it chose as a way to ensure the viability of plane manufacturers.
(5) The Bureau of standards & Department of Commerce to promote US innovation and industrial competitiveness. Given its purpose was to help business, Beard asked: "Why shouldn't they do their own (promoting) at their own expense, instead of turning to the Government"
(6) Tariffs; going back; back to the 18th century tariffs were the government's largest source of revenue from the 1790s until WW I and of course protected specific industries.
(7) Taxes on Corporate Income; letting corporations be headquartered off-shore and pay no federal income taxes; allowed to repatriate foreign earnings on the same basis;
(8) Farm Subsidies.
(9) The super Funds for toxic waste clean up as companies left without doing it.
(10) free government-funded R & D;

112000 companies and colleges doing business with the federal government

Steel; The steel makers want trade protection from low-priced imports. Lobbied for the United States to put pressure on other nations to scale back their steel-making capacity.
Tac nreaks given to wal Mart themost profitablr company in America.
I can list t least ten companies that i know off the top of my head hat only continue thanks to the dole of the government.