^^^^^ CB: I appreciate your putting this in terms of freedom and necessity. Freedom is the mastery of necessity. What capitalism does is create with its enormous development of the productive forces the potential for mastering all basic necessities for everybody. But then it undercuts fulfillment of this potential, by development of many new necessities (a car or bus-fare becomes a necessity to get to work , in a society where a job is a necessity); and then, by the unequal distribution of wealth, it denies to many the mastery of many necessities in this expanded range of necessities. This dynamic reintroduces the importance of abolishing classes as well as developing technology to achieve progress.