What Is Communism?
Communism is an idea of a society without classes where the means of production are owned in common; the word covers a theory, a goal and several states.
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1.What are the means of production?
Communism is an idea of a society without classes where the means of production are owned in common; the word covers a theory, a goal and several states.
2.When and where was the Manifesto published, and what did it sum up in one sentence?
It opens with the line about a spectre haunting Europe.
3.What did Marx's Critique of the Gotha Programme separate?
In the first phase a producer receives back from society what matches his labor; only in the higher phase does from each according to ability, to each according to needs apply.
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Sources (6)
- Marx, K., Engels, F.: Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
- Marx, K.: Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875), Teil I (marxists.org)
- Engels, F.: Preface to the English Edition of the Manifesto, 1888 (marxists.org)
- Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the USSR, adopted 7 October 1977 (englische Fassung, Bucknell University)
- Constitution of the People's Republic of China, Fassung
- Mises, L. von: Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth (1920) und Lange, O.: On the Economic Theory of Socialism, Review of Economic Studies 1936/1937
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