apparently he's a communist (not even a new occurrence to me), as all communists believe that people need to be workers, productive in the(-ir planned) economy (or rather their economic system which, BTW, excludes everything they don't like or cannot control; in the olden days evth beyond the USSR/Eastern European Comecon countries).

No room (even quite logically, in a way) for personal freedom or liberty in their little world...

Hasn't changed much -- except for location!