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From: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Beyond Perestroika
Summary: socialism isn't communism, authoritative source
Message-ID: <566@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 8 Apr 89 05:40:05 GMT
References: <3982@kremvax.mosc.cccp> <1658@orion.cf.uci.edu> <2884@daisy.UUCP> <582@whizz.uucp>
Reply-To: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <582@whizz.uucp> bbh@whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell) writes:
>In article <2884@daisy.UUCP>, wooding@daisy.UUCP (Mike Wooding) writes:
>> In article <1658@orion.cf.uci.edu>, dlawyer@balboa.eng.uci.edu (David Lawyer) writes:
>> < In article <3982@kremvax.mosc.cccp> gorby@kremvax.mosc.cccp (Mikhail Gorbachev)
[...]
>"From each according to his abilities; to each according to his work." Which
>is to say, you get paid based on your contribution.
>
>> 
>>  Would it be too much to ask for a source? I'd even settle for some
>>  authoritative spokesman for the USSR :-)

'On this point we want to be perfectly clear: socialism has nothing to do
with equalizing.  Socialism cannot ensure conditions of life and 
consumption in accordance with the principle "From each according to his 
ability, to each according to his needs."  This will be under communism.
Socialism has a different criterion for distributing social benefits:
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his work."'

Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika
p. 100 in Fontana/Collins paperback edition, 1988
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