Istilah "masyarakat komunis" berbeda dari konsep Barat "negara komunis", yang merujuk kepada sebuah negara yang diperintah oleh sebuah partai yang berpaham Marxisme–Leninisme.[4][5]
↑Busky, Donald F. (July 20, 2000). Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey. Praeger. hlm.4. ISBN978-0275968861. Communism would mean free distribution of goods and services. The communist slogan, 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs' (as opposed to 'work') would then rule
↑O'Hara, Phillip (September 2003). Encyclopedia of Political Economy, Volume 2. Routledge. hlm.836. ISBN0-415-24187-1. it influenced Marx to champion the ideas of a 'free association of producers' and of self-management replacing the centralized state.
↑Busky, Donald F. (July 20, 2000). Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey. Praeger. hlm.9. ISBN978-0275968861. In a modern sense of the word, communism refers to the ideology of Marxism-Leninism.
↑Wilczynski, J. (2008). The Economics of Socialism after World War Two: 1945-1990. Aldine Transaction. hlm.21. ISBN978-0202362281. Contrary to Western usage, these countries describe themselves as 'Socialist' (not 'Communist'). The second stage (Marx's 'higher phase'), or 'Communism' is to be marked by an age of plenty, distribution according to needs (not work), the absence of money and the market mechanism, the disappearance of the last vestiges of capitalism and the ultimate 'whithering away of the state.
