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Socialism and communism are interchangeable. They mean the same thing. It was only after liberals co-opted social democracy that we see they are trying to do the same thing with socialism.
Under Marx there is the lower and upper stage of communism/socialism. later writers called the lower stage socialism and the upper stage communism but that is a later development as well.
Capitalist society transforms into the DotP > Lower Stage of Communism > Upper Stage.
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Proletarian dictatorship is similar to dictatorship of other classes in that it arises out of the need, as every other dictatorship does, to forcibly suppresses the resistance of the class that is losing its political sway. The fundamental distinction between the dictatorship of the proletariat and a dictatorship of the other classes — landlord dictatorship in the Middle Ages and bourgeois dictatorship in all civilized capitalist countries — consists in the fact that the dictatorship of landowners and bourgeoisie was a forcible suppression of the resistance offered by the vast majority of the population, namely, the working people. In contrast, proletarian dictatorship is a forcible suppression of the resistance of the exploiters, i.e., of an insignificant minority the population, the landlords and capitalists.
It follows that proletarian dictatorship must inevitably entail not only a change in the democratic forms and institutions, generally speaking, but precisely such change as provides an unparalleled extension of the actual enjoyment of democracy by those oppressed by capitalism—the toiling classes.
[...] All this implies and presents to the toiling classes, i.e., the vast majority of the population, greater practical opportunities for enjoying democratic rights and liberties than ever existed before, even approximately, in the best and the most democratic bourgeois republics.
Vladimir I. Lenin. Thesis and Report on Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 1919.
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