Communism is the goal, Socialism is the method. Once there's no more conflict, and no more scarcity, achieved through socialism, humans can finally have communism. Communism is the big lie.
Something like slavery>feudalism>capitalism>socialism>communism. The Great Leap Forward was supposed to take China from socialism to communism. Note that this is the classification according to Marxists and it may not match up with how these terms are used by others, e.g. they call every society that relies on agriculture 'feudal' even when it has nothing to do with feudalism.
Lenin and his followers were heretics from Marxism in that they held that you can skip the capitalist/bourgeois democracy stage and 'telescope' history (to socialism) as they called it. The more doctrinaire Marxists, the Mensheviks, ironically supported the liberals like the Kadets because they thought that was necessary for Russia at that moment. They tend to be less dangerous for that reason.
Communism is the goal, Socialism is the method. Once there's no more conflict, and no more scarcity, achieved through socialism, humans can finally have communism. Communism is the big lie.
Actually, socialism is the 'middle stage' according to their ideas.
What's the initial stage? (La Revolucion?)
Something like slavery>feudalism>capitalism>socialism>communism. The Great Leap Forward was supposed to take China from socialism to communism. Note that this is the classification according to Marxists and it may not match up with how these terms are used by others, e.g. they call every society that relies on agriculture 'feudal' even when it has nothing to do with feudalism.
Lenin and his followers were heretics from Marxism in that they held that you can skip the capitalist/bourgeois democracy stage and 'telescope' history (to socialism) as they called it. The more doctrinaire Marxists, the Mensheviks, ironically supported the liberals like the Kadets because they thought that was necessary for Russia at that moment. They tend to be less dangerous for that reason.