Because ownership is a meaningless concept when it's separated from control. The Marxist theory of socialist production is centered on ending the "anarchy of production" of market systems by means of having a deliberately organized economy where everything is made for its use rather than profit, the particulars of which are decided by the popular will and groups delegated to by the popular will to figure out certain aspects (e.g. handling local problems, matters that can really only be understood by experts, etc.)

You can't meet a Marxist definition of communism in a bureaucratic state (the closest thing to autocracy that exists in the real world) because the bureaucracy, by virtue of controlling production, is its own class with its own class interests and class antagonisms with the underclass.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I completely agree!

What I was saying was way more basic/direct/strict meaning, but if you extend the terms into systems like that (I would say that eg Marxism is a bit wider term than communism), which makes sense, you are completely right.