Communism and Socialism

[Bobithy]

I would like to know what you think the different types of each their are, and the differences and similarities between the two. Lets get a feel of what people think, no wrong answers ;)

[ZeroNowhere]

Why do we seem to have this same question every two days?
Anyways, 'socialism' and 'communism' are synonyms, and refer to a classless society. Some use 'socialism' to refer to a 'transitional stage', which generally differs by the person, the only thing that they can agree on generally being that anything else is 'utopian'. Others use 'socialism' to refer to the lower phase of socialism, and 'communism' to refer to the higher phase, but since the only difference is that the lower phase uses labour credits while the higher one does not, there's not much reason to use completely different terminology.
As for different types, there's loads of variety, from mutualism to Potkrakin's 'anarcho-communism' (which is generally used to refer to a specific current of anarchism, rather than 'every anarchist who is a socialist', which would be all of them).

[el_chavista]

There is a good reason for asking about socialism and communism.

Imperialist propaganda has made a myth of the name 'communism', that of a government which personifies crime, evil in all its manifestations.

There has never been, before or now, anywhere, a political ideology more hated and slandered by the world bourgeoisie and its mercenary spokespersons, than the communist one.