Full Idea
Both liberals and socialists depend on government - liberals ostensibly to preserve freedom but actually to prevent equality, socialists ostensibly to preserve equality but actually to prevent freedom.
Gist of Idea
Liberals and socialists want government, which suppresses either equality, or freedom
Source
Nicolas Walter (About Anarchism [1969], p.04)
A Reaction
A bit too neat and simplistic. A good point, though. Lots of freedom will struggle to prevent inequality, and rigid equality is bound to limit some freedom. This seems to contradict Idea 24401. How can anarchism deliver equality?
Book Reference
Walter,Nicolas: 'About Anarchism' [Freedom Press 1977], p.4
Related Idea
Idea 24401 Anarchists show that freedom and equality are essentially the same [Walter]