Feels like most people seriously think communism boils down to educating people, lol. Even those who associate communism only with their idea of the party, who even came up with that? They are mixing up the role of the party with any random group that slaps "communist party" on their name. The party is basically the brain of the class, the class' political and economic expression of its program. It is not some random ideological point, it is an unavoidable necessity. No other economic form that emerges can replace the role of the party. Like there can be antagonism between the class' economic and political necessities but most people treat the party as if it's separate to the proletarian movement, imposing its will from outside, when it emerges from the class' own needs.