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.<p>The notion that one&#x27;s income ought to be guaranteed regardless of the value of one&#x27;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).<p>European socialists have been advocating for Basic Income --aka &quot;social dividends&quot;-- since the 60s at least.