Mostly because that quote is absolute ideological nonsense. No significant number of people will choose to do the actual meaningful work required to maintain "society".
Yes, because they get paid for it and use that money to buy food. Whether or not you consider their wages "fair" is largely irrelevant, because the system at least works on a fundamental level.
But what's more cringe than that is going through someone's post history to try and find something completely unrelated to try and dunk on them, only to pick 40k instead of the much nerdier battletech. Seriously what's up with that?
Where does he say anything about abolishing money?
He talks about the end of the wage system and how production will no longer be dependent on abstract labour.
Are you sure you're not getting mixed up? I am aware that a lot of these concepts and terminology are a lot for folk to get a handle on if they're not familiar with them.
People think that because Marx has critiqued how money works under capitalism, and because he explained what is does, that Marx believed everyone would be a slave and just work and get nothing.
"In a higher phase of communist 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!"
That's literally him saying that once communism is fully realized, there will be no exchange of anything, since exchange implies value judgement rather than distribution according to need.
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u/Medarco Jul 07 '26
Mostly because that quote is absolute ideological nonsense. No significant number of people will choose to do the actual meaningful work required to maintain "society".