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