In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A classless society would let each person's free development enable everyone else's free development.
- In plain terms
- Everyone's freedom depends on others' freedom.
- What can you take from it?
- Mutual development is the goal of a classless society.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What structures support mutual development?
- How can individual and collective goals align?
Another view
Achieving true mutual development is historically difficult.
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