This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an instrument of oppression

It's the disguise used by those who wish to exploit without restraint, denying the need for the state to protect the 99% Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a ... Full Story »

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Patricia L'Herrou
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by Patricia L'Herrou - Dec. 24, 2011

the writer points out with perceptive examples, the differences between the abstract word, 'freedom' , and its abuse of using it from only a particular vague point of view, having little to do with its opposite of bondage or slavery or immurement. common today it's use is to promote both freedom from normal social constraints and from exploitation. i think it would be clearer to more readers if he had used the abstraction of 'two concepts of liberty' less and concrete examples more.

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