Post Five- How is personal freedom only achieved in a community?

Personal freedom is, according to Marx, only achieved in a community where the people of the working class have overthrown the upper class that oppress them, and govern themselves to the point of equality. Everyone in a Marxist community is equal right down to the tee, where there are no differences amongst the people. Personal freedom is basically freedom from any sort of oppression, though if everyone was working together towards equality, the “personal” part of “personal freedom” might be somewhat of a contradiction, as true equality, as Marx would want it, would actually strip away any sort of personality. I suppose in that context, what he means by “personal freedom” is the unified, personal desire for freedom of the proletariat, as if the ultimate goal of a member of the proletariat class is to be free of any and all oppression.

However, if this question were to be asked after stripping away the entire Marxist viewpoint, the answer would be quite different, though not entirely. The idea behind Marxism is for a community to work together for independence and unity, asking this question upon removing any sort of Marxist ideology would remove the unity portion of Marx’s idea of a community. A non-Marxist would define “personal freedom” as an achievement of your own goals independently. The culmination of non-Marxist “personal freedom” though a community could be seen as a township of any kind which contains people who provide different goods and services to you to help you in achieving your “personal freedom”, as the community would work together, just not all that unified as everyone helps everyone, but everyone is really just trying to live their own lives, rather than weaving together a tight-knit network of people that act as a single unit, as the Marx would call for. Were you to change the context of the question, the answer would be different, but really not all that different.