Critique of the Gotha Programme
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- English
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- Extent:
- ~630 words · 3 passages
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- APAKarl Marx. (n.d.). Critique of the Gotha Programme. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/karl-marx/critique-of-the-gotha-programme
- MLAKarl Marx. Critique of the Gotha Programme. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/karl-marx/critique-of-the-gotha-programme.
- ChicagoKarl Marx. Critique of the Gotha Programme. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/karl-marx/critique-of-the-gotha-programme.
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What it is about
The Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875): Marx's attack on the German socialists' unification programme.
Context and history
It contains 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs' and the distinction between the two phases of communist society — the text that organised every later argument about what came after capitalism. ⚠️ This entry is **a fragment, not the work**: it appears in the catalogue with very little text, a sign the downloader stopped at the landing page. It stays flagged until it can be fetched whole, because you are better off knowing than assuming this is all of it.
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* Starting from these basic principles, the German workers' party strives by all legal means for the free state—and—socialist society: that abolition of the wage system together with the iron law of wages -- and—exploitation in every form; the elimination of all social and political inequality. Part III * The German Workers' party, in order to pave the way to the solution of the social question, demands the establishment of producers' co-operative societies with state aid under the democratic control of the toiling people. The producers' co-operative societies are to be called into being for industry and agriculture on such a scale that the socialist organization of the total labor will arise from them. Part IV * The free basis of the state. * The German Workers' party demands as the intellectual and ethical basis of the state Appendix * Normal working day. * Restriction of female labor and prohibition of child labor. * State supervision of factory, workshop, and domestic industry. * Regulation of prison labor. * An effective liability law.