From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
We can approach this charming idea in two ways. As an unusually spicy joke in which case we should laugh and go past it or as a huge perverted nonsense which has to be crushed at the very beginning. But as always, mankind has chosen a more eccentric approach. It believed in it.
Needs are inversely proportional to abilities. The strong person can do everything and doesn’t need anything. The weak person can’t achieve anything but his needs are far bigger than other people’s needs.
The strong man demands from himself to succeed. He fights life and he is proud of his victories and his losses. Because they are his own. He would never let anyone limit his abilities. He would never let anyone fulfill his needs. That’s exactly the man who leads the world forward.
The weak man doesn’t demand anything from himself. His weapons are to be helpless and useless. He has neither victories nor losses because he never had the courage to walk into a real battle. The only reason for his existence is that he has the insolence to claim that others have to keep him alive.
The person with „needs“ is the biggest parasite. He thinks that his hunger gives him right to another man’s food. That his weakness is worthy of the gifts of life not just as much as the strength of the other one, but even more so. The parasite believes that the organism of the strong person has to feed him. That since the other one has more than him, he has to share it.
The great man doesn’t live for the others and doesn’t want the others to live for him. He knows that every opportunity satisfies only itself. He believes in his abilities and knows that he deserves only what he managed to earn.
The interpretation of the word „need“ is very interesting. If you don’t work, but you are giving birth to your seventh child, by all means, you need money to raise it. But if you need to walk alone through Paris so that you can feel its silence, this will be completely neglected. Existence is a need, life is luxury.
The worthy man wants the fruit of his own work and nothing else. The spineless one wants the fruits of other people’s work and calls this “justice”. Needs don’t matter at all. The only things that matter are abilities. So I say “From each according to his ability and to each according to his ability”.
