Haines Brown wrote in a Marxmail exchange (I hope netiquette and rules of the list allow):
I go into this because it helps build a context for the question of "theology" (the study of a supernatural process). That is, to what extent does production "from each according to ability", distribution "to each according to need" bring in a non-natural element?
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It is the Enlightenment presumption of the self-contained individual that creates the issue here being addressed and forces us onto the plane of theology.