Emancipatory politics must be paired with life politics
Evidence
By emancipatory politics, I mean radical engagements concerned with the liberation from inequality or servitude. If we see once and for all that history does not obey a master-slave dialectic, or that it only does so in some contexts and circumstances, we can recognise that emancipatory politics cannot be the only side of the story. Life politics refers to radical engagements which seek to further the possibilities of a fulfilling and satisfying life for all, and in respect of which there are no “others.” This is a version of the old distinction between “freedom from” and “freedom to,” but “freedom to” has to be developed in the light of a framework of Utopian realism. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 368
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes emancipatory (freedom from) and life (freedom to) politics — central Giddens vocabulary.
- XREF: connects to: Individual and social liberation must be waged together but not assumed interdependent; Authentic freedom requires both races to disalienate from inherited inhuman voices