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[[File:New_Harmony,_Indiana,_por_F._Bates.jpg|thumb|370px|An engraving of [[Robert Owen]]'s proposed [[proto-communist]] society of New Harmony. This early communist experiment failed and the planned living complex was never built.]]<br />
'''Communism''' or '''the higher stage of socialism''' is the society that [[Marxist|Marxists]] predict will succeed both [[capitalism]] and [[socialism]].<ref name=":0">Marx. [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm Critique of the Gotha Programme, Part I]. "Within the co-operative society based on common ownership of the means of production, the producers do not exchange their products; just as little does the labor employed on the products appear here as the value of these products, as a material quality possessed by them, since now, in contrast to capitalist society, individual labor no longer exists in an indirect fashion but directly as a component part of total labor. The phrase "proceeds of labor", objectionable also today on account of its ambiguity, thus loses all meaning."</ref> <br />
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Communism is based on common ownership of the [[means of production]], cooperative labour, and freely associated producers (or, the free association of equal producers) that administer production on the basis of a [[planned economy|social or common plan]]. The social character of labour, unlike in capitalism (see [[Law of value]]), is directly expressed (as social labour) via the association of producers. Consequently, communism is a society without [[commodity production]], commodity [[exchange]] (and [[market|markets]]) and therefore without a universal equivalent (i.e. [[money]]). [[Value]], the value-form, and the [[law of value]] have therefore also disappeared.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Stalin, J. [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/ch02.htm Economic Problems of the USSR] 3. [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/ch04.htm The Law of Value Under Socialism]</ref><br />
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The [[superstructure]] arising from this [[base]] or economic structure would be based on collective administration by free and social individuals, without the need for a special repressive body. Communism is therefore a stateless society.<br />
==See also==<br />
* [[Socialism]]<br />
==References==<br />
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