共産主義革命
後にスターリンによって定式化されたマルクス・レーニン主義の概念では、共産主義の第一段階（より低い段階）が社会主義社会と呼ばれ、第二段階（より高い段階）が共産主義社会と呼ばれた。これにより当時の社会主義諸国は社会主義段階と位置づけられ、貨幣・国家などの廃止は将来の共産主義社会にて実現されるとされた。スターリニズムや一国社会主義論も参照。
無政府共産主義
On the article by Max Baginski called "Stirner: The Ego and His Own" published in the American anarchist magazine Mother Earth there is the following affirmation "Modern Communists are more individualistic than Stirner. To them, not merely religion, morality, family and State are spooks, but property also is no more than a spook, in whose name the individual is enslaved - and how enslaved! The individuality is nowadays held in far stronger bondage by property, than by the combined power of State, religion and morality...The prime condition is that the individual should not be forced to humiliate and lower himself for the sake of property and subsistence. Communism thus creates a basis for the liberty and Eigenheit of the individual. I am a Communist because I am an Individualist. Fully as heartily the Communists concur with Stirner when he puts the word take in place of demand - that leads to the dissolution of property, to expropriation. Individualism and Communism go hand in hand."