Editing Inheritance (section)

=== Soviet response to inheritance ===
As [[Communism]] is founded on the [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[Labor theory of value|Labor Theory of Value]], any money collected in the course of a lifetime is justified if it was based on the fruits of the person's own labor and not from exploiting others. The first communist government installed after the [[Russian Revolution]] resolved to abolish the right of inheritance regardless of being the result of someone's work or exploitation,<ref name=MSU>{{Cite web |date=2015-08-26|title=Abolition of Inheritance |url=http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1917-2/economic-apparatus/economic-apparatus-texts/abolition-of-inheritance/ |access-date=2021-01-06 |website=Seventeen Moments in Soviet History|language=en-US}}</ref> with some exceptions.