Doug
wrote:
That's an outrageous policy, of course, but if I were on mainstream
TV, I wouldn't use capitalist or capitalism either - I'd opt for
more acceptable euphemisms. I've found over the years that lots of
ordinary people are susceptible to Marxist analyses as long as they
don't know that's
Doug: I recall reading some poll results where a majority identified theline "from each according to his ability to each according to hisneed" as coming from the US Constitution.
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I've seen that too. Also, I have seen classroom full of fairly conservative Ohio State freshmen spontaneously
Ellen wrote:
I recall reading some poll results where a majority
identified the line from each according to his ability
to each according to his need as coming from the US
Constitution.
You might mean a 1987 Boston Globe magazine poll which claimed that
about half the American population
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Susceptibility to Marx
from each according to ability, to each according to contribution is the official ideology of capitalism but to Marx might _really_ be applied in the lower level of communism.
from each according to ability, to each according to need is the slogan
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Doug: I recall reading some poll results where a majority identified the line "from each according to his ability to each according to his need" as coming from the US Constitution.
Didn't other polls find that people thought that measure from the bill of
rights were communist laws.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:09:01AM -0400, Ellen Frank wrote:
Doug
wrote:
That's an outrageous policy, of course, but if I were on mainstream
TV, I wouldn't use capitalist or capitalism
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I didn't think they were talking about capitalism, Ellen, I thought this
was for socialism. Mat
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I recall reading some poll results where a majority
Barkley Rosser wrote:
I'm not sure where it originates from, but I
have heard it claimed that Marx and Engels
said that distribution under socialism was to
be from each according to his ability, to
each according to his work.
If I recall correctly, the phrase is Stalinist in origin and
may
From each according to his need...
I believe that Marx got it from Louis Blanc who adapted a slightly different
notion from the St. Simonists. The basic idea is biblical.
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