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From: nick@cs.hw.ac.uk (Nick Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Beyond Perestroika
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Date: 10 Apr 89 12:05:30 GMT
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In article <566@tukki.jyu.fi> tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes:

>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

I trust that nobody thinks Gorby is saying anything new here. Lenin changed
the word 'needs` to 'work` many years ago. Perhaps it is indicative of the
new order that Gorby doesn't credit Lenin with it. I wonder how many other
ideas within Perestroika and Glasnost have such a noble pedigree :-) Oh well,
I suppose we'd better give the boy a chance.

Nick Taylor.