Single Idea 23137

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 8. Socialism]

Full Idea

Liberty without socialism is injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

Gist of Idea

Liberty without socialism is injustice; socialism without liberty is brutality

Source

Mikhail Bakunin (works [1867], 3), quoted by Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities 3

Book Reference

Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.160


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?