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>>13730240
>How do you reward a more dedicated laborer?
With a higher income. Workers received different pay for different work in the soviet union and Cuba. Marxism is about trying to get the full value of your labor.
>How do you avoid class segregation if you reward said laborer?
Workers wouldn't invest in capital.
>How do you avoid using oppressive state apparatus to suppress unavoidable class segregation?
You don't, the state is still necessary for class conflict. You can see this clearly in Lenin's writing on socialism.
>How do you avoid natural hierarchies?
You don't, It's unavoidable and Marx says as much. But since their relation to the means of production are no different than anyone else it doesn't constitute as a class difference in the Marxist sense.
>Marx claims that advocating equality along one dimension, such as everyone in a society earning the same amount of money per hour worked, will lead to inequality along other dimensions. Everyone earning an equal amount per hour of work would, for example, lead to those who work more having more money than those who work less.
>If a society decides to instead ensure equality of income by paying all workers the same daily wage then there would still be inequality along other dimensions. For example, workers who don’t have to provide for a family with their wage will have more disposable income than workers with families. Therefore we can never reach full equality but merely move equality and inequality around along different dimensions.
From anarchopac's write up on Marx not being an egalitarian. I don't usually really like him but that piece was good.

>>13194992
The Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet. It was created for a very specific time and place and shouldn't even be read today in my opinion. Read Marx's actual theory, you could even go back and read Early Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and you'd have a far better basic understanding of marxism.