Who first defined socialism as “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”?
Although Marx is popularly thought of as the author of the phrase, it has been widely speculated that he merely co-opted a term earlier used by other leaders of the socialist movement. The slogan was first used by Louis Blanc in 1840, in “The organization of work”, as a detournment of a quote by the utopian socialist Henri de Saint Simon who claimed that each should be rewarded according to how much they work. It has further been suggested that, despite the secular nature of Marxism, inspiration for this creed was drawn from Christian socialism or directly from two lines in the Book of Acts in the Christian Bible: All that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
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