ABSTRACT
The abolition of the institutions and mechanisms of repression already presupposes liberation from servitude, prevalence of the need for liberation. The transition from voluntary servitude (as it exists to a great extent in the affluent society) to freedom presupposes the abolition of the institutions and mechanisms of repression. Today the two potential factors of revolution which the author just mentions are disjointed. The first is most prevalent in the underdeveloped countries, where quantitative change—that is to say, the creation of human living conditions—is in itself qualitative change, but is not yet freedom. The second potential factor of revolution, the prerequisites of liberation, are potentially there in the advanced industrial countries, but are contained and perverted by the capitalist organization of society. The divergence between the objective and the subjective need changes completely, the author suggests, the basis, the prospects, and the strategy of liberation.
