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We know that at this moment we do not yet have a communist system, and that it is impossible to require equality…but we must say “You have to live within such and such bounds, you are in the seventeenth rank.” If he receives more, then he is subject to special demands; some return will be exacted of him. It is only literary work which is paid outside of any limits. Why is this done? Because it is still difficult to reach the situation where communist writers write just as cheerfully for nothing as for pay, and we are forced to make this concession.
— A. A. Solts, Communist Ethics. There you are, Dinah.
