Material Incentives to Labour

J. Wilczynski
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J. Wilczynski: Royal Military College of Australia

Chapter 6 in Profit, Risk and Incentives under Socialist Economic Planning, 1973, pp 126-156 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the ideals postulated in Marxian ideology was the principle of the distribution of personal income — ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’.1 Marx believed that in a communist society the workers would rid themselves of greed and acquisitive ambitions, and instead they would be responding only to ‘superior’ motives so that there would be a complete identification of personal and social interest. In his view the gulf between white-collar and blue-collar workers and between managerial and operative functions would disappear, and so would money — the breeder of egoism and contradictions.

Keywords: Socialist Country; Incentive Payment; Social Consumption; Profit Rate; Material Incentive (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1973
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01442-2_6

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