The Future Society — an Estimate

Abstract

Having presented in some detail the Communist view of the future communist society together with pertinent criticism from Western commentators, it remains to evaluate the consistency of the Communist view in general. As was mentioned in the Preface (page vii) the whole work and this estimate of consistency is from the view of Communist ideology itself assuming Marxist doctrines without critically evaluating them against the traditions of Western democracy. The present evaluation will be done generally from the point of view of the argument concerning human nature and opens with a discussion of that factor, then moves on to the division of labor, morality, economics, democracy and other questions. This section discusses only a few Communist ideas as representative of the whole system. In conclusion there are some reflections on how consistent the communist future may be with traditional Western democratic values.