from each according

[workersunity]

Im doing a research paper, and i need to know exactly where marx says "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" I really need it really soon, sorry for the rush, i thought i knew where it was

[Lance Murdoch]

It's from "Critique of the Gotha Programme".

[The Feral Underclass]

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works.../gotha/ch01.htm

If you trype control then F and type in 'From each according' it will find the quote.


In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly -- only then then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

[1949]

Interesting trivia:

Bob Avakian mentions in his "Christianity and Society" talk at bobavakian.net that "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need," was actually lifted by Marx and Engels from the Bible. He goes on to explain how the phrase applied to early Christian societies--and why it eventually failed.

[OleMarxco]

So the great independant communist intellectual-father are sort of a nick'n'nabber from the Bible, eh? Sort of a lil'bit o' christian influence in our nice old friend Marx! ;)

But nowadays it's the other way around, me thinkesth. Now catholic churches are sort of "mimicking" Communism in their very own way at their "orders", "cults" and "sects". Don't even GET me started about Opus Dei...BAH!

[ComradeChris]

It's not a direct quote, but it's a reference to "to each according to his need..." It's in Acts I believe. I discovered that from reading Al Franken.

[986Boobop424]

Interesting trivia:

Bob Avakian mentions in his "Christianity and Society" talk at bobavakian.net that "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need," was actually lifted by Marx and Engels from the Bible. He goes on to explain how the phrase applied to early Christian societies--and why it eventually failed.

Yes, we all know how the Church of Bob Avakian seeks to replace the Church of Jesus Christ. :rolleyes: