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| 23137 | Liberty without socialism is injustice; socialism without liberty is brutality |
| Full Idea: Liberty without socialism is injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. | |||
| From: Mikhail Bakunin (works [1867], 3), quoted by Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities 3 | |||
| A reaction: [1867, but no reference] Bakunin was an anarchistic socialist. This must be the best one-line defence of socialism ever written. Gopnik quotes it as part of the anarchist critique of liberalism. So are liberty and socialism long-term compatible? |