Communism of Consumption
The communism of consumption referred to Karl Marx a society or economic way to get an equal share of the produced goods in which all participants, d. H. regardless of who produced the goods or who owns the means of production .
In contrast to communism with a Marxist character, it is not about the abolition of the capitalist mode of production , but only about equality of distribution. In 1875, in his criticism of the Gotha program, Karl Marx turned against the restriction to distribution, which the program, “under Lassalle's influence, narrowly envisaged, namely that part of the means of consumption that is distributed among the individual producers of the cooperative. " Marx says: " Vulgar socialism (and from it a part of democracy again) has taken over from the bourgeois economists to regard and treat distribution as independent of the mode of production, hence to present socialism mainly as revolving around distribution. "
The Soviet historian AW Mischulin describes in his monograph Spartacus the practice of distributing the booty in the army of the Roman slave leader Spartacus as an example of such a communism of consumption.
Individual evidence
- ↑ MEW 19, 19
- ↑ MEW 19, 22
- ↑ cf. Christian E. Schulz: The uprising of the Spartacus . 1999, GRIN Verlag. P. 8f. limited preview in Google Book search