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From: "TAHIR WOOD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The best solution is the one that can base itself most
> firmly on this principle and on this principle only: Each
> according to his or her work.
>
> When we have developed a better type of human being we can
> take it further from there.
>
> Tahir
>
While I'm not a Trotskyist by any means, I provide this and a link for
further speculation:
Trotsky, "The Revolution Betrayed":
The first section, entitled "Social Structure", concludes with these words:
"In the Soviet Union, the principle of socialism is realized: From each
according to his abilities to each according to his work." This inwardly
contradictory, not to say nonsensical, formula has entered, believe it or
not, from speeches and journalistic articles into the carefully deliberated
text of the fundamental state law. It bears witness not only to a complete
lowering of theoretical level in the lawgivers, but also to the lie with
which, as a mirror of the ruling stratum, the new constitution is imbued. It
is not difficult to guess the origin of the new "principle." To characterize
the Communist society, Marx employed the famous formula: "From each
according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." The two parts
of this formula are inseparable. "From each according to his abilities," in
the Communist, not the capitalist, sense, means: Work has now ceased to be
an obligation, and has become an individual need; society has no further use
for any compulsion. Only sick and abnormal persons will refuse to work.
Working "according to their ability" -- that is, in accord with their
physical and psychic powers, without any violence to themselves -- the
members of the commune will, thanks to a high technique, sufficiently fill
up the stores of society so that society can generously endow each and all
"according to their needs," without humiliating control. This two-sided but
indivisible formula of communism thus assumes abundance, equality, an
all-sided development of personality, and a high cultural discipline.
[full portion of the article available at:]
http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Other/Trotsky/Archive/1936-Rev/ch10.htm#ch1
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