Given that communists never progress beyond the “socialism” stage, they and socialists are really one and the same. (Marx claimed that a transition from “bourgeois capitalism” to socialism was necessary to create a state that would “wither away” into communism, but one chief characteristic of his insanity was that he did not acknowledge that a state that is all powerful does not “wither away” but dies in convulsions.)
>(Marx claimed that a transition from “bourgeois capitalism” to socialism was necessary to create a state that would “wither away” into communism, but one chief characteristic of his insanity was that he did not acknowledge that a state that is all powerful does not “wither away” but dies in convulsions.)
Maybe he put that line to try to curry support among gullible anarchists.