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by vidarh 4009 days ago
> There is a huge difference between everyone gets exactly the same regardless of merit* (communism)

Everyone getting exactly the same regardless of merit has nothing to do with communism. So much so that Marx spent a lot of time criticising this idea and tearing it totally apart whenever someone raised it (Critique of the Gotha Programme has a substantial section on this subject).