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Full Idea
In a communist society we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Gist of Idea
The free development of each should be the condition for the free development of all
Source
K Marx / F Engels (The Communist Manifesto [1848], §2)
Book Ref
Marx,K./Engels,F.: 'The Communist Manifesto', ed/tr. Taylor,A.J.P. [Penguin 1973], p.105
A Reaction
This ringing slogan is remarkably close to John Stuart Mill's defence of liberalism, where liberty is an absolute, as long as it avoids the liberty of others. Personally I think freedom is marginal in political philosophy, like food and shelter.
| 5303 | For the proletariate, law, morality and religion are just expressions of bourgeois interests [Marx/Engels] |
| 5302 | Modern governments are just bourgeois management committees [Marx/Engels] |
| 5301 | The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles [Marx/Engels] |
| 5306 | The free development of each should be the condition for the free development of all [Marx/Engels] |
| 5305 | Communists want to rescue education from the ruling class [Marx/Engels] |
| 5304 | Communism aims to abolish not all property, but bourgeois property [Marx/Engels] |
| 5307 | Many of the bourgeois rights grievances are a form of self-defence [Marx/Engels] |
| 21998 | Bourgeois interests create our morality, law and religion [Marx/Engels] |