joshua chambers-letson:
“freedom, within white supremacist liberal capitalist modernity, is largely understood to be a possession or right: the freedom to own, to enter the market, or to buy and sell one’s labor.”
“freedom, within white supremacist liberal capitalist modernity, is largely understood to be a possession or right: the freedom to own, to enter the market, or to buy and sell one’s labor.”
“as lisa lowe argues, ‘liberal ideas of political emancipation, ethical individualism, historical progress, and free market economy were employed in the expansion of empire [and these] universalizing concepts of reason, civilization, and freedom effect[ed]…”
“colonial divisions of humanity, affirming liberty for modern man while subordinating the variously colonized and dispossessed people whose material labor and resources were the conditions of possibility for that liberty.’”
“following mimi thi nguyen, after a century and longer of us military imperialism, freedom is not only colonized by liberalism; it is a discourse through which liberalism justifies colonial and imperial violence.”
“freedom, within liberalism, is an impossibility—a cruel joke or what lauren berlant describes as cruel optimism.”
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