re: Nazis and Communists

Which is why in the common parlance, in academic circles, by the people who write about Marxism, that the communist phase is almost never mentioned, and the term Marxism is most commonly used as a stand-in for the socialist phase. The Marxist literature overwhelmingly is obsessed with the socialist phase and not the communist phase. If the Marxist literature, written by self-professed Marxists, is obsessed with the socialist phase, sometimes making distinctions that they aren't referring to the communist phase, that much of Marxist dialogue occurs as though there isn't a communist phase at all, and that the important phase is the socialist phase, then my use of Marxism to describe the socialistic phase is pretty much in keeping with how Marxists use the term itself. I've read plenty of Marxists, and the communist phase is so rarely mentioned that it might as well be ignored. Part of the reason for this is the obsession with revolution, both potential and actual revolution. It's rare to find a major work in the Marxist philosophy that does consider the communist phase, which also makes it different from Anarcho-Communists, who have much more literature about what their communist phase (their only phase) would look like.