You say that in order to build our Socialist society we sacrificed personal liberty and suffered privation," said Stalin to the American correspondent Roy Howard. "But we did not build this society in order to restrict personal liberty, but in order that the human individual may feel really free. We built it for the sake of real personal liberty without quotation marks. It is difficult for me to imagine what 'personal liberty' is enjoyed by an unemployed person who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.Real Liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home, and of bread, only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible."From Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan, Chapter 18, pgs. 255-256 via /r/communism https://ift.tt/37XmVmI
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