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This is literally the opposite of true, it's true of highly heirarchical systems, not true of communism.
Socialist systems actually seek to decentralize power, meaning you need to be less reliant on people being saints... not more.
I don't see why you believe that at all.
This is kinda nitpicky, but Marxists do want centralization, they just also want democratization. All of large production would be in the hands of government. The difference is that it would also be democratized, meaning this centralization works to extend the reach and influence of the average worker over a Capitalist system.
Anarchists, meanwhile, do want decentralization, but I would not say they are the only forms of Socialist.
This is very nitpicky and I'm sure you meant what I said, but I have had to explain to far too many people who thought Marx wanted essentially Anarchism but on a different time scale, so I figured I'd add this note to your good comment.