Basically, socialism is a transition to communism [0], and so they are viewed as gradations of the same ideology. The idea is that communism is workers control

Basically, socialism is a transition to communism [0], and so they are viewed as gradations of the same ideology. The idea is that communism is workers controlling the means of production, but there must be an intermediary where the government owns the means of production (defined above as "revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat", but marx was a cynic and believed revolution was an absolute, and dictatorship of the proletariat is basically direct democracy without regard to the constitution). [0] https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/c...