“If people don’t have free agency, they become mere chattel to the herdsman who wields the biggest horsewhip.”

— L. K. Samuels

Source: Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left', (2019), p. 45

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