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Spiritual freedom is an unconditional value because it makes possible for us to value anything and hold ourselves to any commitment in the first place. Spiritual freedom has always been the implicit condition of leading a life, but the modern idea of freedom makes it explicit. __By the lights of a modern conception of freedom, we should not be defined once and for all by a given social role (family, profession, religion, nationality, ethnicity, gender). Rather, we should be free to transform the normative conception of ourselves and our institutions should reflect that freedom.__
This Life
Martin Hägglund
To define a humanist alternative we need to examine existing economic forms--markets, central planning, private and public ownership, and hierarchical divisions of labor--to see how they preclude solidarity, diversity, and collective self-management. In light of these lessons, we need to elaborate alternative economic forms better suited to organizing production, consumption, and allocation in ways consistent with humanist goals.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
State and civil society, politics and economics, as Gramsci emphasized, are methodological distinctions, plotted on the same practical ensemble rather than referring to really separate spheres:
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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