Dear All, a draft paper of mine and İsmail Şiriner is available now. Comments are always welcome... -------- "The Nature and Paradoxes of Freedom
Freedom is a powerful Idea. As a concept, combined with equality and fraternity, it was the forceful ideal drive for a series of revolutions in Europe and throughout the world since the middle of the 17th century. As well as ruling and oppressed and subordinated classes, imperialist states and colonised and suppressed people referred and refer to it either to defend their socioeconomic and political domination or justify their fight for emancipation and self determination. Therefore, it is not surprising that it is a hot-combated concept. It includes the freedom of conscience, thought and speech, will and action of individuals and collective agents. This whole scope of the concept may be summed up by subsuming them under the terms of external and internal freedom. These two aspects of freedom must be taken in their dialectical unity as inseparable and accomplishing aspects of one and the same concept. In contemporary debates, it still continues to be a core concept and is pointed to as the main motivation by Marxist scholars for fundamental social and political changes as explored within the framework of the concept of (human) emancipation. By contrast, paradoxical enough, neo-liberals and conservatives, too, use the concept of freedom to justify their social- Darwinist socio-political proposals. This is a paradox as well as an intriguing commonness and provokes for further tho ught, investigation and qualification. The aim of the paper is to address this paradox." Read more at: http://dogangocmen.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/freedom_nature_and_paradoxes.pdf D.Göçmen http://dogangocmen.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
