SOURCE / edition
Critique of the Gotha Programme
About this source
Terrell Carver's translation in the 1996 Cambridge volume Marx: Later Political Writings, consulted for Marx's account of communist phases and distribution.
CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 5
Where this source is used
Marx conditions a higher communist phase on expanded productive capacity and the end of people's subordination to the division of labor.
- supports · pp. 215–216 of the 1996 Carver translation
Marx reserves distribution according to need for the higher communist phase.
- supports · p. 215 of the 1996 Carver translation
Marx describes individual consumption in the initial communist phase as proportional to contributed labor after deductions for common funds.
- supports · pp. 213–215 of the 1996 Carver translation
Marx describes an initial communist society as emerging from capitalism with inherited economic, moral, and intellectual limits.
- supports · pp. 213–215 of the 1996 Carver translation
A party name or state self-description establishes an actor's claimed identity, not that its institutions realize any one communist account of property, class, distribution, authority, or the state.
- context · pp. 213–216 of the 1996 Carver translation