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If communism is a government system how is it implemented only a lack of government and system?
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Communism is an economic system, not a government system (though it can also be called that technically since it calls for the abolition of the state.) Anarcho-communism is simply anarchism that wants anarchy with communist economics. So an economy without money where production is orientated around the fulfillment of needs.
Anarchism is a broader umbrella which can include communities preferring an-com, but does not force participation in those communities onto anyone. Voluntary participation is always central to anarchism, which rejects hierarchy.
Imo, effectively nothing. Through all my years of thinking on these ideologies, there is nothing substantially different between the two that would make me think that it's worthwhile to separate them.
At most you can argue that ancom is slightly more specific in the way that it'd argue for economy.
Well I think most of the difference comes down to the strategies on how to get to the same place.
Anarchism is not lack of government, it is self-government from the people for the people through mutual-aid and direct action.
Communism, on the contrary to what some people in the right might say, is not a statist ideology, it is the abolition of class and private property.
Socialism is not statism either, socialism means when the working class seizes the means of production, so marxians believe that workers should form a "proletariat state" to maintain socialism, we anarchists do not.
commuism is included, hence the name
There's probably more difference between anarchist communism and anarcho syndicalism. But don't ask me what as it's been decades since I read any theory 😂