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Marx’s program for the future

Dictatorship of the proletariat:  a brief transitional period after the revolution

1. distribution of income according to labor performed

2. gradual disappearance of classes

3. state in the hands of the proletariat

4. increasing productivity

5. increasing socialist consciousness: people work with few incentives

6. increasing equality

7. a command economy

8. the economy managed by the state

Full communism:

1. distribution of income according to need, no longer according to labor performed

2. no classes

3. the state withers away

4. very high productivity, so that there is plenty for all

5. high socialist consciousness -- people work without incentives

6. more equality but not absolute equality

7. no money

8. a command economy

9. the economy managed by a free and equal association of producers

10. the differences between occupations disappear, so there is no social distinction between town and country

11. each person does about as much physical as intellectual labor

12. the system, as Stalin was the first to show, is worldwide

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Paisley Currah
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Last Revised -- 01/28/99