Communism is defined as "an idea of a classless society". In order to create a true CommunistSociety, all classes must be abolished. The DoubleStandards for poor, rich, and bourgeois and the intermediate subsets, are a form of class, but not the only one. Upper-class and lower-class do not necessarily have to mean rich or poor, respectively.

One form of class is HierArchy. People with a high position on the hierarchy, in addition to having more or all power, are treated as human, more special, or more important, have more liberties and benefits, and can command others lower on the HierArchy. In contrast, the people lower on the hierarchy are controlled and given orders, valued as less significant, and have less priveliges. Thus, it is fair to say in a hierarchy that if you are "upper-class" (high on the hierarchy), you get treated better, have more rights, and can boss people around, and vice versa. This is not fair, and the more hierarchies (or any classes or divisions for that matter) in a society, the less SocialJustice in that society.

A more general form of class is DoubleStandard, because the people who are regarded in a better way are upper class, and the "others" are lower-class or bourgeois.

Since hierarchy is a type of class, and all types of class must be abolished in a CommunistSociety, and because an anarchist society is defined as a society where hierarchy is abolished, all truly communist societies are anarchist, but not vice versa.

All communists are anarchists, but not all anarchists are communists. --JonasDaltonRand

Jonas, if I may mention a book and an article, that are central to my thinking about Anarchism and community?

• Is It Utopia Yet? -- by Kat Kinkade -- she's a woman with an engineer's analytical mind, talking about the community out in the woods that she co-founded with others, and the kinds of problems they faced, solutions found, and unanswered questions; In particular, she has tackled, head on, many times, the question of the DoubleStandard.
• [Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology] -- contains a number of great references to other peoples works that are themselves worth looking into -- rooted in the idea of observing indigenous cultures to understand, "How did they make (what we would understand as) anarchism work?"

Shoot; gotta run. -- LionKimbro

Thank you. --JonasDaltonRand