> The term "socialist" encourages
> attempts to define it, and that is anti-democratic. Any attempt to
> write recipes for the cookshops of the future exhibaits distrust of
> the working class.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm
> What we have to deal with here is a communist society, not as it has
> developed on its own foundations, but, on the contrary, just as it
> emerges from capitalist society; which is thus in every respect,
> economically, morally, and intellectually, still stamped with the
> birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges. Accordingly,
> the individual producer receives back from society -- after the
> deductions have been made -- exactly what he gives to it. What he has
> given to it is his individual quantum of labor. For example, the
> social working day consists of the sum of the individual hours of
> work; the individual labor time of the individual producer is the part
> of the social working day contributed by him, his share in it. He
> receives a certificate from society that he has furnished
> such-and-such an amount of labor (after deducting his labor for the
> common funds); and with this certificate, he draws from the social
> stock of means of consumption as much as the same amount of labor
> cost. The same amount of labor which he has given to society in one
> form, he receives back in another.