give the right answer to the question what is to be done with the
extra products of labour over and above what will keep the labourer
alive to labour: which answer is, that the worker will have all that
he produces, and not be fleeced at all: and remember that he
produces collectively, and therefore he will do effectively what work
is required of him according to his capacity, and of the produce of
that work he will have what he needs; because, you see, he cannot USE
more than he needs--he can only WASTE it.

If this arrangement seems to you preposterously ideal, as it well
may, looking at our present condition, I must back it up by saying
that when men are organized so that their labour is not wasted, they
will be relieved from the fear of starvation and the desire of
domination, and will have freedom and leisure to look round and see
what they really do need.

Now something of that I can conceive for my own self, and I will lay
my ideas before you, so that you may compare them with your own,
asking you always to remember that the very differences in men's
capacities and desires, after the common need of food and shelter is
satisfied, will make it easier to deal with their desires in a
communal state of things.

What is it that I need, therefore, which my surrounding circumstances
can give me--my dealings with my fellow-men--setting aside inevitable
accidents which co-operation and forethought cannot control, if there
be such?

Well, first of all I claim good health; and I say that a vast
proportion of people in civilization scarcely even know what that