Re: Anyone seen the new Sirius/Cadillac commercial?

On Dec 18, 2:14 pm, "M. Rick" <richardbla...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After that, fully accomplished democracy will follow. According to Marx,

it's *to each according to their needs, from each
according to their possibilities*

Production, not possibilities. Government can't tax (or "take from") a song
that has yet to be written. This idea is evidenced fairly well in American
democracy: government -- acting on behalf of the people -- taxes various
sorts of economic production, and then redistributes the money according to
what government perceives are the needs of the people. The exception is
when government is corrupt and disregards the needs of the people.

Marx, I believe, goes further by taxing the entire production, i.e.,
everything that is or was produced is owned by the state.


Marx's much more utopian formulation, stated in his Critique of the
Gotha Program (1875) was:

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!"

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm


It was actually, I believe, a decision made by Lenin as head of the
early Soviet state (and presumably bowing to real world pressures) to
modify that to the rather less idealistic:

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his work."
.

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