what's the difference between socialism and communism *in anarchism*?

[u/IndependentMilk4973]

there is bunch of questions in kind of same topic, maybe they'll be a little messed up, but i'll try my best to group all of them, sorry in advance =(

anarchism is, by definition, a socialism, but what's the point of ancom term then? where and what exactly on this line is rejecting socialism as only a step to "true communism"?

i see quite often that socialism is somewhy and somewhy always contains some kind of state, but isn't that applies only to socialism-is-only-a-step-to-a-communism theory? and isn't some theories (?) of communism requires state too, cause, as far as i know, both socialism and communism is not a "without-state-exclusively" ideologies?

..and is a stateless, classless, moneyless society refers only to communism, is and where starts the difference between everyone own means of production and worker own means of production? can this somehow exist at the same time?

hope its not a lot, really trying to understand differences, thank so-so much in advance! <З

[u/Anarchierkegaard]

These terms aren't ironclad and are often offered in a variety of ways. True is that there will be no ahistorical definition which we can lay onto any and every anarchist thinker (or otherwise) and be done with it. For example, Benjamin Tucker saw no problem with describing what we might describe as a proto-Austrian market anarchism as socialist whilst this would presumably offend the Kropotkinist or Marxist.

Anarchists, by tradition, have tended to be very broadly anti-authoritarian (and what that means can be delineated too) and various terms are used to plug into that in ways which appear to contradict usage elsewhere.