It reveals a contradiction in Korotayev's argument which is also representative of the larger contradiction in this mode of thinking. Genosse Korotayev supposes that it is just silly dialectical rationalization to suppose that people are free because they think they are. I agree completely. Korotayev suggests a position I do not hold. In fact, I do not think it necessarily matters what a person thinks of themselves in such matters.
Reality can be quite a different thing than the thing that appears in consciousness.
He adopts the very position he suggests I hold and he ridicules. By supposing I cannot judge his freedom from where I stand he is saying that he is free to believe he is free because he thinks he is. Not only this, but he is saying that all his comrades are free because he thinks they are. But I have no basis to contradict him, lest I fall into the absurd position of thinking I am better able to judge his, er, I mean their freedom than he. This is typical anticommunist rhetoric.