I kinda dislike all these terms like left, socalist, communism, ect because everyone has different understandings of them.

If you ask a right-leaning libertarian about the differences between socialism and communism, I imagine that they would say that their the same thing, and point to China or the USSR calling themselves socialist, while being communist (china not so much nowadays though)

I try not to categorize myself too much because of that

edit: if people are gonna downvote me, say why 🤦