The 6th five-year plan of the Soviet Union had as one of its central aims a wage reform to guarantee a minimum income and simultaneously reduce hours required t

The 6th five-year plan of the Soviet Union had as one of its central aims a wage reform to guarantee a minimum income and simultaneously reduce hours required to be worked. Khrushchev held reduced working hours as a basic goal of the communist movement, which is entirely aligned with the vision of Karl Marx: to each according to his needs, regardless of ability or work. The notion that one's income ought to be guaranteed regardless of the value of one's work, or even of its existence, has its origins in the Marxist claim that people should get whatever they need regardless of personal, intellectual, or capital differences (couched under a general denunciation of private property and of non-labor theories of value). European socialists have been advocating for Basic Income --aka "social dividends"-- since the 60s at least.