>> "Within the co-operative society based on common ownership of the means
>> of production, the producers do not exchange their products; just as
>> little does the labor employed on the products appear here as the value
>> of these products, as a material quality possessed by them, since now,
>> in contrast to capitalist society, individual labor no longer exists in
>> an indirect fashion but directly as a component part of total labor."
> (Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme)
> CB: Does this passage refer to the _transitional_ phase or the fully
> communist phase ?
Both. Marx envisaged a transition between a first phase of communism and a higher phase of communism - but they are both *communist* societies.
-- Lew