Your people's ideological fix against Democratic Socialism is a nod to all those supporting the most radical capitalist country system in the world and will do little past supporting ever increasingly divisive levels of inequality in your country
In a nutshell, communism is the end goal of socialism. Socialism is the path that you take transitioning from capitalism to that communist goal.
Socialism is the Marxist-Leninist framework of developing towards communism. Socialism is what people generally think of when they think of communist actions: the dictatorship of the proletariat for example is a desire to create a new government that is run by and for the benefit of the working class, in preparation for the “final jump” to communism.