ABSTRACT
The psychological component of freedom implies undistorted mental development and well-being. The social component of freedom has three dimensions, for power is a three-dimensional category. If a society is to be free, its members must be free from physical coercion, from economic coercion, and from manipulative coercion. Socialism requires planning, which is a negation of market. Criticizing “market socialism” in Yugoslavia, Paul Sweezy argues that the market restricts socialist relations and transforms social ownership into a sort of collective ownership. The evaluation of social usefulness by profit is characteristic of a capitalist system. Gadgetry and acquisitiveness replace socialist values. The real difference is not between the various types of incentives but between incentives and autonomous decisions. A market of a special type is thus fully consistent with socialism. Paleolithic hunters and gatherers and neolithic agriculturalists do not earn their living but satisfy their needs directly by their own work.
