Anarchism is first and foremost a plea for decentralisation, both territorial and functional. It organises society from the smallest and simplest group and works up to the most complex. It is anti-authoritarian and seeks to devolve all economic and social functions of human life on voluntary groupings. This feature makes Anarchism resemble Syndicalism and also to be distinct from Marxist Communism. Organisation of economic and social life into small local groups is a feature common to both Anarchism and Syndicalism while Communism tends to centralise them.
As regards methods, Anarchism, Syndicalism and Communism agree in the use of revolutionary and violent ones. Even in aims, there is something in common between them. But Anarchism and Communism differ regarding the role of the State in the attainment of their goals ‘We do not at all disagree with the anarchists”, said Lenin, “on the question of the abolition of the State as a final aim; but Marxism differs from anarchism in that it admits the necessity of the State and State power in revolutionary period in general, and in the epoch of transition from capitalism to Socialism in particular.”
In other words, the anarchists, the socialists and the communists have the same goal a classless and Stateless society but they follow different, even divergent, roads towards it.