"We must reclaim the word "freedom." Our new class lens helps us call out and contradict the guardians of the capital order, who use "freedom" to disguise their defense of the market economy. Economic freedom is really about emancipation from exploitation and impersonal domination. It is freedom from the obsessive and paralyzing centrality of an inhumane economic system. It is freedom to put human value before economic self-interest, to do work that is meaningful for oneself and others. It is freedom to fully realize our capacities as flourishing, compassionate beings. It is freedom to reconstitute social bonds and solidarities. Economic freedom is true freedom."
Freedom

January 1, 1970

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