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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" (German: Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen) is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Programme. [1] [2] The principle refers to free access to and distribution of goods, capital and services. [3]
The French socialist Saint-Simonists of the 1820s and 1830s used slogans such as, "from each according to his ability, to each ability according to its work" [3] or, "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his works.” [4] Other examples of this can be found from Ferdinand Lassalle's and Eugen Dühring's statements to Leon ...
It is notable also for elucidating the principles of "To each according to his contribution" as the basis for a "lower phase" of communist society directly following the transition from capitalism and "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" as the basis for a
Bettmann/Corbis/ Lucas Schifres via Getty Images“From each according to ability; To each according to need,” is a phrase derived from where? A) The works of Karl Marx B) The Bible C) The ...
The resultant society gains and allocates resources according to the quote "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!". [15] The communist approach eliminates scarcity in all respects, and represents a society from a pure collectivism school of thought, based upon the utilitarian moral perspective.
The slogan "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" refers to distributive justice in Marxism according to Karl Marx. [20] In Marxism-Leninism according to Vladimir Lenin the slogan "He who does not work, neither shall he eat" is a necessary approach to distributive justice on the path towards a communist society. [21]
Because of their emphasis on labor they summed up their socialist program with principle "To each according to his ability and to each ability according to its work." [73] They also introduced the idea that class antagonism between the workers and owners came from the dispute over possession of the instruments of labor. [68]
The entire military is “a moral construct,” said retired VA psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay. In his ground-breaking 1994 study of combat trauma among Vietnam veterans, Achilles in Vietnam, he writes: “The moral power of an army is so great that it can motivate men to get up out of a trench and step into enemy machine-gun fire.”