That was an interesting question, but I am not sure about the validity of the answer given there. In particular, in the fourth line of his/her response @udrv replaces $p_1$ with $-i \partial/\partial x$, but once you are allowed to do that, the commutation relation follows by itselve as an identity, as has been shown countless times in this forum.
John
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