Authoritarian movements demand members surrender their own freedom for a promised liberation.
Evidence
It is the first sacrifice that they impose upon him: in order to achieve the liberation of men he has to give up his own freedom, even his freedom of thought. In order to mask the violence, what they do is to have recourse to a new violence which even invades his mind. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 108
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s core question about whether willing freedom for all can justify surrendering one’s own.
Related
- Authority presupposes freedom in those subjected to it (similarity 0.80)
- Liberation appears immediately necessary only to the oppressed (similarity 0.79)
- Willing one’s own freedom and willing others’ freedom are the same act (similarity 0.79)
- Freedom that withdraws into self-interest denies its own nature (similarity 0.78)