>My take on Marx is that he was advocating a society
>without commodity production/consumption, no buying
>and selling. That is, a socialist society's
>distribution would be based on how many socially
>necessary labour hours one put in.
Of course in such a society the only way someone like Marx could have devoted so much of his working life to questioning the very basis of that society, is if it was first agreed that his work was socially-necessary. Otherwise he would presumably need to work as directed, or starve.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas