“From Each according to Ability; To Each according to Needs” Origin, Meaning, and Development of Socialist Slogans

Luc Boven () and Adrien Lutz
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Luc Boven: UNC at Chapel Hill, Department of Philosophy, Caldwell Hall, CB# 3125, 240 East Cameron, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125

No 1839, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: There are three slogans in the history of Socialism that are very close in wording, namely, the famous Cabet-Blanc-Marx slogan: From each according to his ability; To each according to his needs; the earlier Saint-Simon–Pecqueur slogan: To each according to his ability; To each according to his works; and the later slogan in Stalin’s 1936 Soviet Constitution: From each according to his ability; To each according to his work. We trace the earliest occurrences of these slogans and their biblical sources and we show how the progression from one slogan to the next casts light on the development of early socialist thought.

Keywords: socialism; utopian socialism; bible; Christianity; slogans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B14 N00 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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