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De Tocqueville, when he invented the word ‘individualism’, was talking about a pervasive change in the entire American social attitude, not a limited element that had happened to prevail over a given set of rivals.
Mary Midgley • The Myths We Live By
As Rawls put it, “Lacking a sense of longterm security and the opportunity for meaningful work and occupation is not only destructive of citizens’ self-respect but of their sense that they are members of society and not simply caught in it.”
Daniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

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Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Tocqueville a pointé la puissance des sentiments identitaires en politique : « Il n’y a au monde que le patriotisme et la religion qui puissent faire marcher pendant longtemps vers un même but l’universalité des citoyens45. » Or le réveil des passions nationalistes et religieuses entraîne le renouveau de la contestation de la liberté politique par
... See moreNicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
As political philosopher Asad Haider explained, “neoliberalism… is really two quite specific things: first, a state-driven process of social, political, and economic restructuring that emerged in response to the crisis of postwar capitalism, and second, an ideology of generating market relations through social engineering.”
Sarah Jaffe • Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Deux périls menacent dès lors la démocratie : l’armée tout d’abord qui, marginalisée dans les temps de paix, peut se saisir des périodes troublées pour s’emparer du pouvoir ; les citoyens surtout qui peuvent, par passion de l’égalité, aliéner leur liberté entre les mains d’un État tout-puissant.
Nicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
argues that Enlightenment liberalism, from which both U.S. parties are descended, is built on the premise that humans are by nature “free and independent,” and that the purpose of government is to liberate the autonomous individual.