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Full Idea
Freedom consists in converting the state from an organ superimposed on society into one completely subordinate to it.
Gist of Idea
Freedom is making the state subordinate to its society
Source
Karl Marx (Critique of the Gotha Program [1875], IV)
Book Ref
Marx,Karl: 'Selected Writings', ed/tr. Simon,Lawrence H. [Hackett 1994], p.327
A Reaction
The intermediate stage is dictatorship of the proletariat (presumably exercised by the communist leadership). No twentieth century marxist state ever got near the freedom which Marx was seeking. A liberal society might achieve it!
Related Idea
Idea 22085 Freedom requires us to submit to a family, or a corporation, or a state [Hegel, by Houlgate]
| 22000 | From each according to his ability, to each according to his need [Marx] |
| 22969 | People who only have their labour power are the slaves of those permitting them to work [Marx] |
| 22972 | Bourgeois 'freedom of conscience' just tolerates all sorts of religious intolerance [Marx] |
| 22970 | Freedom is making the state subordinate to its society [Marx] |
| 22971 | In moving from capitalism to communism a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is needed [Marx] |