, 8 November 2015 (UTC) 

 :Also, I reiterate that socialism does not imply that a state would exist in some form. Busky notes that social anarchism is a "nonstate form of socialism." Furthermore, arguing that socialism is an intermediate stage between capitalism and communism is a Marxist notion; there are non-Marxist socialists who believe that socialism is a final stage in and of itself.   21:46