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Material Incentives to Labour

In: Profit, Risk and Incentives under Socialist Economic Planning

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  • J. Wilczynski

    (Royal Military College of Australia
    University of New South Wales)

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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.

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  • J. Wilczynski, 1973. "Material Incentives to Labour," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Profit, Risk and Incentives under Socialist Economic Planning, chapter 6, pages 126-156, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-01442-2_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01442-2_6
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