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IV. THE UNDERLYING CONFLICT IN THE REALM OF IDEAS
AND VALUES BETWEEN THE U.S. PURPOSE AND THE
KREMLIN DESIGN
A. Naturo of comflet:
The Kremlin regards the Umited States as the only
major threat to the achievenent of its fundamentsl de-
sign. There is a basic coaflict between the idea of
freedom under a government of lavs, and the idea of
slavery under the grim oligarchy of the Kremlin, which
has come to a crisis vith the polarization of pover
described in Section I, and the exclusive possession of
atomic veapons by the tvo protagomists. The idea of
freedom, moreover, is peculiarly and intolerably sub-
versive of the idea of slavery. But the converse is
not true. The implacable purpose of the slave state to
oliminate the challenge of fresdom has placed the two
great povers at opposite poles. It is this fact which
gives the present polarization of pover the quality of
crisis.
The free society values the individual as an end in
himself, requiring of him only that measure of self dis-
cipline and solf restraint which make the rights of each
individual compatible with the rights of every other in-
dividual. The freedom of the individual has as its
counterpart, therefore, the negative respontibility of
the individual not to exercise his freedom in vays incon-
sistent with the freedom of other individuals and the
positive rospossibility to make constructive use of his
freedom
DECLASSIFIED
AND
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
OSD letter,
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Bz NLT- PROJECT HC NARS NLT Data 154 721.76
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