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 stop global heating and the extinction of species. To illustrate such a
 transformation from the perspective of the total economy, we can continue the
-series above (Table 6), but assume that accumulation comes to a halt. Since the
+series above (Table 6), but assume that accumulation and population growth come
-additional capital and luxury consumption of the former property owners fall
+to a halt. Since the additional capital and luxury consumption of the former
-away we can assume a much lower rate of surplus labour, say 1/3.((The products
+property owners fall away we can assume a much lower rate of surplus labour, say
-of the soil will cost society substantially less labour when land rent is
+/3.((The products of the soil will cost society substantially less labour when
-abolished: “The determination of the market value of products, including
+land rent is abolished: “The determination of the market value of products,
-therefore agricultural products, is a social act, albeit a socially unconscious
+including therefore agricultural products, is a social act, albeit a socially
-and unintentional one. It is based necessarily upon the exchange value of the
+unconscious and unintentional one. It is based necessarily upon the exchange
-product, not upon the soil and the differences in its fertility. If we suppose
+value of the product, not upon the soil and the differences in its fertility. If
-the capitalist form of society to be abolished and society organised as a
+we suppose the capitalist form of society to be abolished and society organised
-conscious and planned association, then the 10 quarters would represent a
+as a conscious and planned association, then the 10 quarters would represent a
 quantity of independent labour time equal to that contained in 240 shillings
 [instead of 600]. Society would not then buy this agricultural product at two
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 de-accumulation, the //necessity// of performing labour //in the service of
 society//, can be reduced considerably. It would completely revolutionise
-today’s notions of work/leisure and production/consumption.((An attentive reader
+today’s notions of work/leisure and production/consumption. As Marx put it:
-may react to the fact that this example assumes a faster reduction in labour
-hours than is compensated for by productivity growth. However, must it really be
-assumed that the individuals will suffer by a reduction in the socially
-guaranteed consumption fund?)) As Marx put it:
 > In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labour, and thereby also the antithesis between mental and physical labour, has vanished; after labour has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-round development of the individual, and all the springs of common wealth flow more abundantly -- only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!((MECW 24, p. 87. Henriksson criticises