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You can't make that statement independent of a pre-existing conception of what freedom is, and as such, independent of whether you have the value-set of a socia
by Emma_Goldman 9y ago
You can't make that statement independent of a pre-existing conception of what freedom is, and as such, independent of whether you have the value-set of a socialist/communist or not. So it's effectively circular as a philosophical claim. If one conceives of liberty as something positive for which one needs the conditions of its realisation - i.e. where it is not just the absence of someone physically impeding you such that you cannot live a meaningful life, but requires the substantive means by which to achieve such a life - then there is no freedom without socialism. Similarly, if you believe in economic democracy, there is no freedom with socialism. And so on.
'Full communism dictates almost every part of your life'.
No it doesn't.