p Communism brings an unprecedented and truly gigantic extension of freedom. First and foremost it liberates man as a toiler, as the creator of material and cultural values. Socialism put an end to private 333 ownership and freed labour from exploitation, but physical work and narrow specialisation, which impedes man’s all-round development, remain in socialist society. In communist society, in addition to becoming a vital inner need, labour, which will be highly automated and mechanised and based on the latest achievements in science, will become creative, attractive and easy physically. Narrow specialisation will disappear and the individual will have every opportunity freely to change his occupation. In free communist labour man will establish himself as a genuinely free and fully developed individual.

p Communism will bring the individual complete economic emancipation, making man free not only as a creator of material and spiritual values but also as a consumer of these values. When one has material difficulties one cannot be really free. Socialism has done much to raise the standard of living but it is not yet in a position to satisfy people’s requirements fully. Communism will deliver man from material difficulties and ensure the full satisfaction of his material and spiritual requirements. As a result man will have every opportunity to engage in the most diverse fields of activity.

p Communism implies the attainment of the summit of social freedom, the freedom of man as a citizen. The last elements of compulsion, of state control over the activities of man will vanish with the withering away of the state. Communist social self-administration, which will supersede the state, presupposes the active and free participation of every citizen in the administration of social affairs and in ensuring economic and cultural development.

p Under communism man acquires genuine spiritual freedom, finally liberating himself from illusions and religious delusions, and his extensive knowledge raises him to an unparalleled height of human dignity as a conscious being, as the conqueror and suzerain of the mighty forces of nature, as the master of his own destiny and the destiny of free mankind. Thereby man achieves his greatest moral freedom. Liberated from the surviving morals of the old, capitalist society, man will, by habit, observe lofty rules of human association, learn to control his thoughts, feelings and behaviour freely and from inner conviction in conformity with the interests of society.

The ideals of human freedom will thus he attained under communism, which will ensure man’s genuinely free and harmonious development, satisfy his many needs as a toiler, creator, consumer and social worker and as a thinking and feeling being, and ensure the best possible application and improvement of human capabilities.