Genuine authority and freedom are mutually dependent, not opposed

Evidence

The fact that the leaders who organize the people do not have the right to arbitrarily impose their word does not mean that they must therefore take a liberalist position which would encourage license among the people, who are accustomed to oppression. The dialogical theory of action opposes both authoritarianism and license, and thereby affirms authority and freedom. There is no freedom without authority, but there is also no authority without freedom. All freedom contains the possibility that under special circumstances (and at different existential levels) it may become authority. Freedom and authority cannot be isolated, but must be considered in relationship to each other. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 572

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the reader’s critique concern: Freire explicitly rejects both authoritarianism and license, offering authority-freedom interdependence as the alternative to vanguard co-option. — connects to: Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1164; Liberty and desire are capital’s own products, not its opposites. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 460; Private and public autonomy must mutually enable each other in a self-stabilizing cycle — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 86 (+4 more)