I know that anarchism, specifically anarcho-communism and marxism are very different. People always talk about their main difference being that they have a different means of achieving their goals but the same end goal , but that’s definitely not true. So what are some of the ways they are different?
I quite like this summary from https://www.skeptic.ca/Anarchism_Introduction.htm because it points out a few key differences.
I just re-read your question btw, and realized I kind of answered the wrong question here, because the quotes focus on the differences in the means rather than in the end goal. But it’s still good context, because communism has so far never been able to move beyond the authoritarian stage, so you could reasonably argue that the actual end state of communism is an authoritarian state with a socialist economy, especially if they have to co-exist in competition and conflict with capitalist states. So the end goal of the state “withering away” is more or less impossible to achieve via communism while western hegemony exists.
This is pretty good to read even if it doesn’t completely answer my question it helps a lot