community of solidarity and freedom

 Community of solidarity and freedom


"Individual liberty is by no means an individual fact, but a collective fact, a collective product. No one can be free outside human society without the cooperation of all human societies. Individualists, or all the false friends we fought in the workers' congress, are moralists. Together with the field and bourgeois economists, man can be free, he can be man outside of society, and society was once built on the free contract of men." - Bakunin


Freedom is a value that is meaningful only in human relationships. Conversely, the value of freedom cannot even exist for a person who has completely left a relationship or a community. All that remains is the fear of survival.


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The dichotomy between freedom and society is fictional.


Those who claim that 'you can be human and be free outside of society' are implicitly arguing that freedom is inevitable or rare in society. In a word, if you want to find freedom, it means to cut off all ties with others, whether contract or whatever and to be alone, that is, not to seek freedom in society or community.


Bakunin called them 'false friends'.


There is only one true dichotomy to be cast within a society or community.


Is it a free society? Or is it an oppressive society?


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"These two interpenetrating and inseparable laws constitute the essence of humanity. Freedom thus does not negate solidarity. On the contrary, freedom is the development of solidarity and humanizes solidarity."


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It is Bakunin's firm belief that solidarity and freedom, or society and freedom, are not in contradiction, but are internally connected ideas. This can be said to be the core of the spirit of all humanism, even if you are not an anarchist. If we expand our thinking a little more, this problem converges to a problem of love and freedom. It is often understood that love and freedom are contradictory concepts. This is a misconception that arises from the belief that love has the nuance of restraint as opposed to freedom. But love and freedom are two sides of the same coin. Because love demands freedom, and freedom means freedom to love. After all, true freedom is the freedom to love.


To be able to fully enjoy the object of love, and to face the object of love without any interference or censorship, is freedom. So true freedom has nothing to do with fictitious freedom, the capricious freedom of rebellion without a cause, or the freedom of consumption that satisfies solitary greed. Freedom without a loved one is only fictional like a coin with only heads.


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A person in love demands freedom for freedom, and only a free person can afford love.


Thus, a person deprived of liberty, a slave, is not worthy of love.


The love of a slave who has no choice but to see the eyes of his master is bound to end in tragedy. In this way, freedom makes love possible, and love longs for freedom.


It is only one step that human love expands into bonds and solidarity.


Just as freedom and love are two sides of the same coin, so are freedom and solidarity.

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