Quote Originally Posted by gimmethesimplelife View Post
Here you have very concisely nailed why so much of America does not work for me - to me, it's not your tab, its OUR tab - our being the collective society as a whole.
How nice that must be!

In a higher phase of progressive society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!