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No, it cannot be done like that. Communism cannot be founded on a welfarist approach to justice, even if reinforced with an essentialist anthropology and an ethic of solidarity. It would not work, unless an ideal human being is assumed. And anyway, Marx and Engels did not think of it in that way, except in their early works. So, let us start again.
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© 2007 Ernesto Screpanti
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Screpanti, E. (2007). The Communism of Abundance. In: Libertarian Communism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596474_2
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