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?