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4 days ago · 1) blame for the real unfreedom is exported to a convenient “other” who challenges U.S. imperial power, and 2) in externalizing the responsibility for your conditions of unfreedom, the limitations to your power appear merely external, i.e., you continue to operate as if you are still free, but “blocked off” from realizing such freedoms by the boogeyman “other.”
2 days ago · With Sartre and de Beauvoir, the most worrying unfreedom is in the extreme youth of some of their paramours—sometimes sixteen- or seventeen-year-olds who were de Beauvoir’s students. And yet, freedom is not that meaningful as an individual enterprise.
1 day ago · She thus defines freedom, justice and equality as natural and unfreedom, injustice and inequality as unnatural and compelling righteous and relentless resistance. The Odu Ifa also teaches moral and psychological courage in struggle, the courage to hold moral ground in the midst of the powerful and oppressive majority or minority. The teachings ...
1 day ago · The American historian, Timothy Snyder, has written a personal book about freedom. His overarching goal is to emphasize that negative freedom is not enough; rather, it can be harmful if it is the only prevailing understanding of freedom: Freedom is not just the absence of something evil, but the presence of something good. The title On Freedom ...
2 days ago · In September 1803, the forces of the British East India Company defeated a Maratha army and entered Shahjahanabad. The Hindu Maratha Confederacy had spent most of the last century as the biggest power in northern India, but officially they were, like most of the other states they conquered, still vassals of the Mughal Emperor.
4 days ago · It argues that corporate seeds in Tanzania are an appropriate site for abolitionist theorizing and organizing. This is because it produces relations of unfreedom for farmers in ways that resonate with (but are not the same as) relations of unfreedom produced by enslavement, the plantation, and their afterlives in the form of racial capitalism.
2 days ago · Haiti's Freedom and Unfreedom: An Exploration in StoryMaps
