[ninenot]

Actually, that's a quote from St. Paul. The part nobody mentions is that "let him who will not work, starve."

[HadEnough]

Sorry, you are not even close.

Here is the first citation
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!"
- Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program, 1874"

Here is where Marx plagiarized it...
"On the morrow of the July revolution, the Saint-Simonian Fathers issued a proclamation abolishing inheritance and setting forth the new hierarchical principle: "Each will be placed according to his capacity and rewarded according to his works." "Each according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its works," was emblazoned ont he masthead of their newly acquired newspaper, Le Globe In their sermons and formal expositions of the doctrine, they testified to their recognition of sexual needs with "rehabilitation fo the flesh" and "emancipation of woman." They introduced novelty into the political vocabulary: "The end of the exploitation of man by man; its replacement with the exploitation of nature by man," and "Performance of the function to which a man's natural calling destines him." Other battle cries were repetitions, with minor modifications: "Each one pursuing his own capacity in order that its products may be distributed to each one according to his works"; or "To each, labor according to his calling and rewards according to his works"; or "An education and function that conform to one's natural calling and a reward that conforms to one's works." (author's note: See, for example, Le Globe, November 5, 1831) The Saint-Simonians were clearly adapting religious terminology - oeuvres, vocation - for their program. And in his turn Marks utilized the Saint-Simonian language. Though he could never stomach Saint-Simonian religious balderdash, the Critique of the Gotha Program phrase "From each according to his abilities" has an unmistakable Saint-Simonian resonance. This is not to say that Marx consciously plagiarized the Saint-Simonians; but their proclamation "Each will be placed according to his capacity and rewarded according to his works" is a pretty fair statement of Marx's expectations for the first phase of communist society.
from A Requiem for Karl Marx by Frank Manuel (1995) (Harvard University Press) p. 163. (Note: the French word "capacite" was about synonymous with "talent", or "natural talent" according to Manuel). The above excerpts reproduced here pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 107 for educational purposes only."