By way of clarification:
communism - bunch of hippies, voluntarily banding together to share from each according to his gifts to each according to need. Inefficient, but depending on fervor, allows for ascendant ability....maybe
socialism - enforced redistribution from each according to what the state provides to each according to what the state decides. VERY inefficient, no allowance for ascendant ability...definitely. The ussr was a socialist republic...no one gets in or out.
it can be voted in, but fighting is necessary to get out.
.02, YMMV
KYPD
You are sore mistaken.
Socialism is communism with a Smiley Face.
Socialism is the thin edge of the wedge to bring in full-blown communism, which is V E R Y closely related to a certain “ism” that killed MILLIONS in the 1930s and 1940s.
S/C/F I don’t care what you think, are ALL THE SAME.