>>512029646 (OP)>>512030859>>512031542>>512032149Okay, let's keep it straight, fellas:
Socialism is:
>worker ownership over their means of productionCommunism is:
>the total abolition of private property (as in capital i.e. land and production, not as in material possession)Socialism and communism work together like peanut butter and jelly, and usually are intended to, which is the crux of marxism - however, you /can/ have socialism divorced from communism, and you /can/ have communism divorced from socialism, and neither socialism nor communism are inherently marxist (marxism being the existence of both socialism and communism at the same time, as well as being marx's personal philosophy known as dialectical materialism).
you could apply socialism to a market system, and thats known as market socialism, and under market socialism different cooperatives compete in a free market. all business must be cooperative, worker owned, but those cooperatives do still compete in a market. a system like market socialism could exist without communism, and normally is proposed to exist without communism, as the cooperative production is usually meant to be privately owned equitably among the workers, as capital. the existence of capital and market socialism are fully compatible.
vice versa, communism can exist without socialism, like in how in the soviet union there was absolutely no private property, but the workers didnt own their labor, the state did. this is known as state socialism, i.e. stalinism.
and, of course, in the case of Marx's proposed society, socialism and communism can exist together. A society can be both worker owned and sans-private property, and this is most commonly manifested in libertarian socialism and anarcho-communism.
You can combine market socialism and libertarian socialism to have libertarian market socialism, a capital-less worker owned market economy.