
Worker Freedom with Alex Gourevitch
The Dig
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How Is Republican Language Shaping Thinking in Europe and Its Settler Colonies?
In the seventeenth century, algernon sidney used republican language to criticise absolute monarchy and colonial rule. The idea that living in a republic means each person's independent shouldn't be under the arbitrary power of some one else ii used primarily to criticize abs monarchy and colonialrule. But importantly, this went hand in hand with the desire for political independence by this group of people. Went hand in handWith wanting to preserve their ability to socially dominate various other groups and classes. And so you can say that, on the one hand, it's extremely important that they bring into being this discourse,. because they kind of do it specially so unlike locke.
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