Please stop using “Communism” as a synonym for centralized economic planning under State Capitalism (aka “authoritarian Social Democracy”).

As people all across the political spectrum (Left or otherwise) continue to do this, they render the term/concept even more useless.

Communism is good.

No, it is not what exists or has existed in most of the territories most of the world points to and calls “Communist.” And no, just because a political entity paints itself red and calls itself “Communist” does not make it good (same for any other Left label).

A communist society is a classless, moneyless, stateless, post-scarcity society where the means of production are democratically controlled by the community for the benefit of all.

Wage labor is non-existent, and production is planned for human needs, rather than private profit.

BONUS:

When we utter the words “State Capitalism,” authoritarians come out of the woodworks to state (verbatim) “State Capitalism isn’t a thing” or “State Capitalism doesn’t exist.”

Lenin:

http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/10/lenin-on-state-capitalism.html?m=1

Mao:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_30.htm

Castro: https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1079793389854429184?s=20

Here are key thoughts on bureaucratization and/or State Capitalism from Communists who were critical of the top-down methods all figures listed above were proponents of.

Luxemburg:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/russian-revolution/ch06.htm

Myasnikov:

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1188216701390860288?s=20

Pannekoek:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/dictatorship.htm