Abstract
In Critique of the Gotha Programme, written in 1875, Marx distinguishes different stages of communism from "crude communism? to a "higher phase of communism?. He defines crude communism as "a communist society [which has not] developed on its own foundations, but on the contrary, [has] just emerg[ed] from capitalist society? . According to Marx, although it represents a more equal society than a capitalist society, inequalities still exist among people. In a crude communist society, "the individual producer receives back from society ... exactly what he gives to it? , so "the right of producer is proportional to the labour they supply? .
