From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs  

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"Perhaps the essence of Marxist thinking is in the aphorism, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. This statement is fundamentally based on a zero-sum view of the world. Each clause reflects a zero-sum error."--The Capitalism Paradox (2019) by Paul H. Rubin

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From each according to his ability, to each according to his need is a slogan first used by Louis Blanc in 1851 (although an earlier version of the saying appeared in Morelly's The Code of Nature) and popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program.

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