Possibility of freedom and happiness in the modern world
“The question of the possibility of freedom and happiness in the modern world. Again, is it possible for all individuals to find freedom and happiness while at the same time all the work that needs to get done in society does get done? In other words, how does each theorist describe and define freedom.”
“the realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane consideration ceases…Beyond it [the realm of necessity] begins that development of human energy which is an end in itself, the true realm of freedom.” Elsewhere (page 74) from the essay on “Estranged Labor,” Marx writes, “the result is that man (the worker) feels that he is acting freely only in his animal functions – eating, drinking and procreating, or at most in his dwelling and adornment – while in his human functions he is nothing more than animal.”
