Was gramps also realistic enough to know that fascists and communists are two strains of the same breed?
Gramps inclined more toward the ideal than the pragmatic. Hence his penchant for separating the Brahman caste of communists, the anarchists, from the everyday socialist, Stalinist, or Maoist.
The latter were involved in the dirty work of setting up the workers paradise, those who were breaking the eggs if you will, so that we may enjoy an omelet. The former fantasized about the day when no government were necessary as we all went happily about our twin duties of contributing according to our ability while consuming according to our needs, "voluntarily".
Not unlike bees or termites although Gramps never made that analogy.