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Single Idea 24433

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle]

Full Idea

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Gist of Idea

My freedom needs everyone's freedom

Source

Mikhail Bakunin (Science and the Urgent Revolutionary Task [1870], p.136)

A Reaction

A resounding slogan, but I doubt whether it is actually true. The full citizens of ancient Athens had a high level of freedom, despite reliance on slavery. Prisons don't overtly impinge of the freedom of the rest of us. Maybe we just don't feel free.

Book Reference

'The Anarchists', ed/tr. Horowitz,Irving L. [Dell 1964], p.136