[Marxism] Engels re socialists, communists

[michael a. lebowitz]

Joaquin cited Engels' Preface to the CM as follows:
"Yet, when it was written, we could not have called it a socialist
manifesto. By Socialists, in 1847, were understood, on the one hand the
adherents of the various Utopian systems: Owenites in England, Fourierists
in France...

Given the significance attributed to contemporary usage, what is 
understood NOW by communism?
       michael

-- 
Michael A. Lebowitz
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