ALIENATION,EARLY SOCIALISM,PERESTROIKA, AND LIBERTY

The essential contradiction of the process of perestroika is that between alienation and liberty. Current Soviet society is a historically preliminary form of socialist society. The essence of early socialism is a rise in new quasi-socialist forms of alienation. Seven strata of alienation have appeared in the Soviet Union—alienation from participation in government, from the results of work, from the organization of work, from human needs, from self-consciousness, from personal safety, and from laws. The theoretical basis of liberty is that it is the antipole of alienation.