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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_%28Marxism%29
Shouldn't it read FROM each according to his contribution (ability), not TO? Major mistake, yes? Can someone correct it and provide reference? I can, but wouldn't be as good. Thanks
You are right. This entry needs correcting on a number of points. It reflects Lenin's, not Marx's, concept of socialism as a separate society (from communism) where the state and the working class will still exist. This was not Marx's view.Writing in 1875 he did envisage a "first stage of communist society" in which full free access to all goods and services might not be technologically possible (perhaps it wouldn't have been in 1875), but it was still a stage of "communist society", i.e a classless, stateless, moneyless society based on the common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. So, for him, even in its earliest days communist society there would be no classes (not even a working class) and no state.In fact, Marx and Engels used socialism" and "communism" (and other terms such as "association") interchangeably to describe the same type of society that would take over from capitalism. He preferred "communism". We prefer "socialism". But, in the end, it doesn't matter which term is used as they are simply different ways of referring to the same thing.For a more accurate description of what Marx meant by socialism see:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1970s/1973/no-832-december-1973/marxs-conception-socialismhttp://bataillesocialiste.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/lenin_reads_marx_on_socialism.pdf
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