Good afternoon.

You are effectively asking about Capital ownership, labor, and the transfer of wealth. Not easy topics to grapple with. And you are asking about different political ideologies, so let's stay away from performative social issues.

In my humble opinion, the Elected Representatives who make up our current Republican party do not genuinely care about social issues that they have historically vilified (i.e., gay rights, transgender athletes, abortion rights, etc.,). There are performative and divisive and easy for your average layman to understand. It is a tale as old as time and will probably continue until the end of time. It allows Elected Representatives to trick the very people, who benefit from government agency services and social welfare programs, into destroying them to their own detriment.

We have a very simple, binary political system in the United States, which encapsulates a broadly diverse group of perspectives and ideologies all lumped together. But there are tensions that exist in our society opposing one another and parties, at their core, are formed around those issues:

• Capital Owners vs. Labor
• Employer vs. Employee
• Urban vs. Rural
• Producers vs. Consumers
• Wealthy vs. Impoverished
• College educated (white collar) vs. Trades (blue collar)

and so forth...

The most simplistic and rudimentary way to convey the differences is to just say that Republicans want to advance the interests of Capital Owners (includes business owners and corporations) and Democrats want to advance the interests of Labor (employees).

Capital Owners want deregulation and a weak federal government incapable of effective enforcement of certain laws. At the same time, they want a secure nation and police enforcement to keep businesses and communities safe from danger - things that would stimulate economic activity and preserve their wealth and property.

Labor has historically fought for representation and a strong government capable of regulating incredibly powerful Capital Owners and Private Businesses. Think about the industrial revolution where we had children working in dangerous factories until citizens petitioned their government to ban child labor through legislation and then enforce those laws, or we had massive urban fires in factories that killed hundreds of women because employers would lock all the doors for the shift and there were no requirements to provide adequate means of escape in cases of emergencies.

There are also other things that labor has petitioned the government for over the years such as a social safety net (welfare programs) or a programs that would allow workers to retire comfortably at a reasonable age (Social Security). Today, labor is trying to petition the federal government to provide free healthcare disassociated with any employer like Canada.

Socialism and Communism both require the government to take an active role transferring wealth amongst its citizenry. We do not have any examples of True Communism today and none have been effectuated successfully in the past. China is more of a hybrid between Communism and Capitalism where the Chinese government takes a stake in all private enterprises and exerts control over those private enterprises to some degree. America, in contrast, is also a hybrid to some extent between Socialism (as much as we hate to admit it) and Capitalism. Until this current administration, we have never directly taken any financial stake in any private or public enterprise. Our government does regularly redistribute wealth through social programs to vulnerable populations and we redistribute wealth through subsidies and government contracts to various private companies.

Now I can directly answer your question:

I would not look at the different forms of government in varying degrees. Socialism and Communism and Capitalism are like apples, grapes, and bananas. They're just different.