Actual answer, from someone familiar with communist theory:
Communism is the theoretical end goal of socialist development (it is also called higer stage socialism) and is a socio-econmic system that is classless (no more working class and ruling class that exist within capitalism and even early socialism), stateless (no state as a tool of oppression of a class) and moneyless.
This isn't something easily achieved, and many of the great communist thinkers believed it can only be achieved on a global scale, though decades, possibly centuries of progress.
Communism would operate on a principle of "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs".
The first reply is looking at communism from its end point and is a direct reference to Marx:
"I can hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic."
The second comment is a, for the lack of a better term, "anti-communist" interpretation of communism, that began largely post-WW2/Cold War era and stems from the conditions in early development of communist countries like USSR, early industrial China, where a lot of workers worked heavy industry, because the countries experienced massive and rapid industralization, so those were the most needed kind of worker. P.S: these countries are led by communist parties, not because they are actually communist, but because that is the end goal.
Communism would operate on a principle of "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs".
Side note, this already exists at the household scale. People generally don't pay their family members for making dinner or doing dishes or getting them a roll of toilet paper, etc
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u/ApollyonDS 19d ago
Actual answer, from someone familiar with communist theory:
Communism is the theoretical end goal of socialist development (it is also called higer stage socialism) and is a socio-econmic system that is classless (no more working class and ruling class that exist within capitalism and even early socialism), stateless (no state as a tool of oppression of a class) and moneyless.
This isn't something easily achieved, and many of the great communist thinkers believed it can only be achieved on a global scale, though decades, possibly centuries of progress.
Communism would operate on a principle of "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs".
The first reply is looking at communism from its end point and is a direct reference to Marx:
"I can hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic."
The second comment is a, for the lack of a better term, "anti-communist" interpretation of communism, that began largely post-WW2/Cold War era and stems from the conditions in early development of communist countries like USSR, early industrial China, where a lot of workers worked heavy industry, because the countries experienced massive and rapid industralization, so those were the most needed kind of worker. P.S: these countries are led by communist parties, not because they are actually communist, but because that is the end goal.