"From each according to his
: ability, to each according to his needs!"
:
: That such a principle proved impracticable in the former Soviet Union
: doesn't invalidate this claim since the requisite individuality and
: developmental conditions didn't exist there. In fact, they have
never
: existed in any community.
^^^^ CB: Actually,they have existed in pre-class communites, "primitive" communist communites, as in the Western Hemisphere before the Europeans got here, or many parts of Africa, Australia; everywhere before the rise of "civilization".
That's part of why we know it is not contrary to human nature to organize society on this principle. It existed for most of the time of human society, 200,000 years before class society started.
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