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The goal is a voluntary state of self-governance, however at a large scale there is usually some committee or authority that is "supposed" to direct everyone towards that.
Historically that power has always been corrupted by the few and communism is never achieved.
Yeah true, I don't deny that, I'm even so pessimistic, to say that even if we have a benevolent dictator giving up dictatorship when the goal has been achieved, that the system is too unstable to exist for a longer time...
So IMO while we should navigate towards a system that is very close to communism, we should probably at least factor in game theory, and try to avoid means that are fundamentally opposed to communism (or at least anarchism), like autocratism (as we have seen multiple times in the past).