Conceptions of liberty are themselves constituted through violence.

Evidence

Profiles of the wanted, the qualified, the productive, the healthy and able and their antonyms articulate racial classes of social incorporation and dislocation, rules of engagement and taboos determining distantiation. Violence, as Talal Asad remarks, is constitutive of how liberty itself is conceived, elaborated, lived. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1828

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sovereign violence is shared by citizens as a right to punish outsiders — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 51; Revolutionary violence must be contextualized rather than used to dismiss its ideals; Modern societies are constitutively founded on violence, not purged of it — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 236 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern societies are constitutively founded on violence, not purged of it #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 236
• Sovereign violence is shared by citizens as a right to punish outsiders #expands (0.75) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 51
• Revolutionary violence must be contextualized rather than used to dismiss its ideals #qualifies (0.75)
• State violence operating outside its own rules constitutes informal sovereignty #expands (0.75)
• Political institutions perpetuate the violence that founded them #expands (0.72)