From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The famous Marxist saying seems to ring incredibly hollow in today’s ostensibly equal societies. Its implications are relatively strait forward, through the apparatus of the state and by means of ‘Democracy’ whether in the form of western liberal democracy or in workers soviets. All will contribute and all will receive there share of the product of the society, or more precisely of the state. The state in the end produces one...