Communist society

In Marxist thought, the communist society or the communist system is the type of society in addition to economic system postulated to emerge from technological advances in the productive forces, representing the ultimate intention of the political ideology of communism. A communist society is characterized by common ownership of the means of production with free access to the articles of consumption and is often classless, stateless, and moneyless, implying the end of the exploitation of labour.

Communism is a specific stage of socioeconomic development predicated upon a superabundance of the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical thing wealth, which is postulated to occur from advances in production technology science and corresponding reshape in the social relations of production. This would permit for distribution based on need and social relations based on freely-associated individuals.

The term communist society should be distinguished from the Western concept of the communist state, the latter referring to a state ruled by a party which professes a variation of Marxism–Leninism.

Open-source and peer production

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Ray Kurzweil posits that the goals of communism will be realized by sophisticated technological developments in the 21st century, where the intersection of low manufacturing costs, the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object abundance and open-source sorting philosophies will makes the realization of the maxim "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".