According to the Marxist philosophy, the goal was to create a classless society that was guided by the precept:

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According to the Marxist philosophy, the goal was to create a classless society that was guided by the precept, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Karl Marx was envisioning a utopian ideal for workers when he wrote that maxim; somehow, things didn't pan out that way. Eliminating private ownership of land and imposing equality on the people ultimately leads to several problems-decreasing worker motivation to perform effectively (because low output nets the same "benefit" as high output, so why work harder) and increasing government oppression as they attempt to forcefully maintain "equality." ("Better Red than dead" was an American expression during the Cold War, which expressed a person's view that it would be better for the U.S. government to fall to a Soviet invasion than for the people to die resisting a Soviet takeover, if the should happen to escalate to that extreme, which it ultimately never did. "Serve the people" was a government slogan during Chairman Mao's rule in China. "Work will make you free" is the English translation of a German saying that was posted at the gates of the Nazi concentration camps.)

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