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{{Page |n°=306}} The second requirement is: make humanity capable of universal goal setting and the solidary exercise towards the goals established. World history still | {{Page |n°=306}}<ref>Polanyi's 2018 pagination.</ref> The second requirement is: make humanity capable of universal goal setting and the solidary exercise towards the goals established. World history still presents the eerie image - to adapt a comparison made by H. G. Wells - of desperate children who, enclosed in a cage on a cart, are rolling towards an abyss. We are all grown-up children … […] Humanity, even civilized humanity, does not represent a unity. It is not a subject, and if it were then its organization would not make possible a universal goal nor a development of solidary power. Not only the segmentation into states and the confusing and antagonistic character of the economy exclude this; […] However, we can only speak of humanity's freedom when it constitutes itself as a subject and is capable of expressing its will - indeed only if at the same time the condition of the earlier formulation of freedom is also met, that is, that this state embracing all humanity, this economy of the whole of humanity or, better, the synthesis of the to, despite its enormity, come into existence as the immediate expression of living human volitions. | ||
However, we will have only attained the highest stage of social freedom when the social relations of human beings to each other become clear and transparent, as they are in fact in a family or in a communist community. | |||
== Editor's Notes == | == Editor's Notes == | ||
Revision as of 14:17, 15 April 2019
[306][1] The second requirement is: make humanity capable of universal goal setting and the solidary exercise towards the goals established. World history still presents the eerie image - to adapt a comparison made by H. G. Wells - of desperate children who, enclosed in a cage on a cart, are rolling towards an abyss. We are all grown-up children … […] Humanity, even civilized humanity, does not represent a unity. It is not a subject, and if it were then its organization would not make possible a universal goal nor a development of solidary power. Not only the segmentation into states and the confusing and antagonistic character of the economy exclude this; […] However, we can only speak of humanity's freedom when it constitutes itself as a subject and is capable of expressing its will - indeed only if at the same time the condition of the earlier formulation of freedom is also met, that is, that this state embracing all humanity, this economy of the whole of humanity or, better, the synthesis of the to, despite its enormity, come into existence as the immediate expression of living human volitions.
However, we will have only attained the highest stage of social freedom when the social relations of human beings to each other become clear and transparent, as they are in fact in a family or in a communist community.
Editor's Notes
- ↑ Polanyi's 2018 pagination.
Text Informations
Reference:
Date: 1921-1922 (written at Helmstreitmüle)
Original Draft: “Ist Sozialismus eine Weltanschauung?”
KPA: 02/16 + 03/03
Recent Publication in English: “On Freedom“ in POLANYI 2018, p. 298-319
Publications:
| Lg | Publication |
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| FR | « Est-ce que le socialisme implique une vision du monde ? » |