[MD] From each... to each

[MarshaV]

At 02:32 PM 5/2/2006, you wrote:

>"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

Arlo,

Thanks for your response.  I've read both the Communist Manifesto and 
Atlas Shrugged.  In theory they both seemed brilliant, but in 
practice both seem utter failures.  That's why I said I like the 
above statement, and not Communism.  Lenin and Stalin were 
monsters.  (W. and Cheney are Corporate hitmen (putting it 
mildly.))  And I would never suggest that the State should determine 
abilities and needs.  Both theories, Communism and Capitalism, have 
been and are flawed by corrupt leadership.  Idealistically, I still 
think that there might be a new system where nourishing ability and 
diminishing need are considerations, and ownership is understood as 
an illusion.  Surely others can imagine another a new, higher quality 
social system???

Marsha




Marsha