David Graeber — Two notions of liberty revisited - or how to disentangle Liberty and Slavery

Some background on the development of the concept of liberty in the West. We need to examine the concept of liberty-freedom closely in light of the current conflict in economics over the market state based on the right to unlimited acquisition of property and the welfare state based on the distribution of property between private use as "utility" advocated by neoliberalism and public use for public purpose advocated by social democracy. These are based on two different notions of freedom, the first being the master of oneself and the second that of the citizen of a polis.

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Two notions of liberty revisited - or how to disentangle Liberty and Slavery
David Graeber