ABSTRACT
Clearly, one cannot work out in advance a detailed scheme of this future. Utopias elaborated in minute detail are necessarily naïve: it is only in their everyday experience that people grad ually find adequate solutions to the problems emerging under continuously changing conditions. But some general charac teristics may be, and have in fact been, worked out by various social scientists. Among these outlines the formulations of Marx, which postulate a new relationship between the indi vidual and society, and a new, less conflict-ridden concept of freedom that helps rather than hinders the self-realization of each individual, are of special relevance for me. ‘Only in the community with others has each individual the means of cul tivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, there fore, is personal freedom possible. . . In the real community the individuals obtain their freedom through their association.'1