Status Updates From جاده باریک آزادی

“Squeezed between the fear and repression wrought by despotic states, and the violence and lawlessness that emerge in their absence is a narrow corridor to liberty. It is in this corridor (=metaphorical for ‘process’) that the state and society balance each other out; a constant, daily struggle between the two. In this corridor the state and society both compete and cooperate.”

“Where does liberty come from? (…) Liberty needs the state and laws. But it is not given by the state or the elites controlling it. It is taken by regular people, by society. Society needs to control the state so that it protects and promote’s people’s liberty. Liberty needs a mobilised society that participated in politics, protests when necessary, and votes the government out of power when it can.”

“This book is about liberty (…) and the consequences of this. Our definition (of liberty) follows the English philosopher John Locke:

‘People have liberty when they have freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit… without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other human.’