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10. No classical communism as described by Marx

is where the state "withers away" after socialism has created the conditions for it.

From the dictionary:

Simple Definition of socialism: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies

Full Definition of socialism
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism