Question

List any two features of socialism history​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Abolition of Private Ownership of Means of Production and their Management for Social Good

2. More emphasis on Society than on Individual

Explanation:

Answer 2

Explanation:

FEATURES OF SOCIALISM:

The main features of this system are detailed below.

(1) Public Ownership:

A socialist economy is characterised by public ownership of the means of production and distribution. There is collective ownership whereby all mines, farms, factories, financial institutions, distributing agencies (internal and external trade, shops, stores, etc.), means of transport and communications, etc. are owned, controlled, and regulated by government departments and state corporations. A small private sector also exists in the form of small business units which are carried on in the villages by local artisans for local consumption.

(2) Central Planning:

A socialist economy is centrally planned which functions under the direction of a central planning authority. It lays down the various objectives and targets to be achieved during the plan period. Central economic planning means “the making of major economic decisions—what and how much is to be produced, how, when and where it is to be produced, and to whom it is to be allocated—by the conscious decision of a determinate authority, on the basis of a comprehensive survey of the economic system as a whole.”

And the central planning authority organises and utilises the economic resources by deliberate direction and control of the economy for the purpose of achieving definite objectives and targets laid down in the plan during a specified period of time.

(3) Definite Objectives:

A socialist economy operates within definite socio-economic objectives. These objectives “may concern aggregate demand, full employment, satisfaction of communal demand, allocation of factors of production, distribution of the national income, the amount of capital accumulation, economic development…and so forth.” For achieving the various objectives laid down in the plan, priorities and bold targets are fixed covering all aspects of the economy.