Which answer choice BEST summarizes how socialism is affected by the ideas of capitalism and communism? Socialism uses the ideas of communism that put production in the hands of the people and narrow the wealth gap, while still
allowing capitalist principles like private property and personal profit.

Socialism was first envisioned by Marx as the stepping stone to a perfect communist society, but was later corrupted by social
Democrats who used its ideas to overthrow capitalists suddenly and violently

Socialism focuses on capitalist ideas like free competition to assume that the most deserving person will earn the most money,
and rejects the communist ideas that wealth can be more fairly distributed among workers.

Socialism was created as a reaction to communism so that people could take their means of production back from the
government, but later combined government production and capitalist ideas about health care and education.