[Freee-dame]

like it was supposedly done in the Soviet Union – to each according to his ability and his needs

Karl Marx actually said "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

[REDWOOD99]

That lone was the first indicator that this article is progressive drivel.

[Senator John Blutarski]

Freee-dame wrote: Karl Marx actually said “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

..... a famous quotation indeed. What I have never seen, however, is any explanation by Herr Marx of just exactly who is to decide what any particular citizen’s abilities are worth or what his “needs” might be.

The complete moral emptiness of such a concept is so huge as to be impossible to ignore.