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

  • IceWallowCum [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    While Marxist-Leninists make the distinction between "socialism" and "communism," Chinese Marxists additionally add the distinction between the "primary stage of socialism" and "developed socialism,"

    Doesn't Marx himself treats it as "stages"? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean?

    IIRC, in Critique of the Gotha Programme, he explains how early communism, in the condition of developing from capitalism, will first maintain the laws that regulate exchange of commodities (in whatever form that may take), gradually morphing into something else as the state develops the means of production and productive forces.

    I'll check the exact quote and post here as an answer to OP's question later