Abilities and Needs

One of Marxism's better-known Principles is 'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs'. A Capitalist analogue can be articulated as 'Each will sow what they reap.' Evolvementalism rejects the latter on three main grounds. First, it disagrees with the implied Social Atomism, i. e. that the fate of each is independent of that of any other. Second, it holds that what is one's own best 'self-interest' is not what or how much one receives, but one's growth as an Individual. Finally, it disputes the priority expressed in the Principle--one reaps in order to sow at least as much as one sows in order to reap. More generally, Evolvementalism finds the entailed critique of Marxism, namely, that one has a Right to withold any of one's Inessential Property from someone whose full exercise of ability is still insufficient to meet their needs, as small-minded. On the other hand, the Marxist Principle is consistent with Evolvementalism to the extent that the fulfilment of need is a necessary condition of Individual Evolvement, and that the Evolvement of one potentially promotes the Evolvement of each and all.