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.