Gordon Fitch wrote:
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> If the Left is the party of freedom and equality, and the
> Right the party of power, authority, social status, private
> wealth, hierarchical order and so on, then the concept of the
> autonomous individual is not an inroad of the Right on the
> Left but rather a rightist simulacrum which the authoritarian
> corruption of the Left gives space to and even advertises.
> A gate opens in two directions, and the ideas of Thomas
> Szasz could be an opportunity for leftist inroads on the
> Right, but only if there were leftists who could deatomize
> personal freedom without proposing to do away with it.
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> This impinges on notions of therapy, because therapy is
> often a code for preserving the social order. In that case
> the force or fraud which is used to impose it on its objects
> is a crucial and revealing nexus. So the question here is
> just what people mean by _therapy_ -- whose will will be
> done.
Gordon
I think this is brilliant. May I quote you in the future?
marta