Let us make clear that the nightmares of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell – aside from the authors’ illusions in these Utopian works – do not at all picture the evolution of socialist society but rather the development of private-capitalistic forms of property. While, according to external acceptances and signs, these authors are painting a picture of “contemporary communism,” they are actually depicting a tendency in the commodity-capitalistic system of life. In this way these nightmares frighten even the humanistic intelligentsia of the “Western World.” They do not frighten us. We understand these tendencies as a part of our heritage that is almost but not completely past.