Just as the ideology of self-management postulates an ideal of universal political participation, so its orientation toward socialist humanism presupposes a certain norm of social interaction. Originating in Marx's vision of future society, the norm of how communists treat their comrades is based on interdependence, mutual respect, and equality. In other words, this socialist ethic teaches both the collectivity and the objectivity of human relations. First, as a collectivity, all comrades share the social experience and hence the responsibility for its outcome. They are obligated to work for the good of all, and the group as a whole is obligated to take care of their individual needs. Furthermore, in all objectivity, the needs, desires, and opinions of one comrade count as much as the respective attributes of any other comrade. Following logically from this, comrades who have been reared by the socialist ethic should respect the persons and personalities of their comrades. Mutual respect and mutual responsibility should color all areas of social relations so that comrades indeed become, in Bottomore's words, ‘a community of creative, equal, and self-governing individuals’.