Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation. It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us. According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. Karl Marx
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Marxism is a movement that is supposed to be based on the beliefs that all people should have equal rights and opportunities and that there should be no private property (a system in which the holder of private property and goods and services has control over them). However, Marx has said that it is not enough for everyone to receive the same amount of money. The way to make things fair is to make sure that people do not actually work for their money. When you work for your money, you are forced to produce something of value, whether it be art or something else. Without this, there is no incentive for anyone to even try.

Source: The Communist Manifesto

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