ABSTRACT
Freedom in the capitalist democracy in which the middle class established, first, its right to freedom from state interference, and, when its security was in hazard, its equal right to protection by the state from those who, externally, threatened that security, is one thing when its history is written by Macaulay or Guizot. For political parties in a planned democracy revolve around a central principle of freedom fundamentally different from that of a capitalist democracy. But, in a planned democracy, the idea of freedom is positive; set as it is in the context of the public ownership of the means of production, it seeks freedom for the fullest development of the public estate. Political parties in a planned democracy are, therefore, likely to differ from one another in the respective views they hold of the best way to develop the public estate.
