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What does it mean?
True freedom requires socialism to avoid injustice, and true socialism requires liberty to avoid tyranny.
In plain terms
You need both liberty and socialism to have a just society.
What can you take from it?
Liberty and socialism must coexist for justice.

Where it applies

  • political theory
  • policy debate
  • movement building

Putting it to work

  • advocate democratic socialism
  • defend civil liberties
  • critique authoritarianism

Questions to consider

  • Can liberty exist without socialism?
  • Is socialism possible without liberty?

Another view

Some argue liberty and socialism are fundamentally incompatible.

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