I have heard several different things, but how I currently understand it is that Communism is a post-socialism state in which goods are produced with such efficiency and surplus that money becomes worthless and class, labor, and the state are phased out. Is this wrong? Is there any difference at all? I am pretty new to leftism. TIA
The history of the two terms is different and socialists/communists have struggled to differentiate and compare the two because of varying disagreements. I generally use it in the modern marxist-leninist way that defines communism as a mode of production and socialism as the political movement towards communism, because I find that has utility and differentiated SocDems from communists, but people are still going to disagree with that.