Engelsian freedom means transcending necessity, not political liberty

Evidence

Where there is freedom, there is no State”. In the latter proposition, the term “freedom” cannot be taken in its ordinary meaning of “political freedom, freedom of the press, etc.”, but as counterposed to “necessity”; it is related to Engels’ proposition on the passage from the rule of necessity to the rule of freedom. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 971

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the Marxist technical sense of freedom as passage from necessity — distinct from ordinary liberal ‘freedom of the press’.