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  • noun The condition of being unfree

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Examples

  • The celebrated thought leader, Amartya Sen argued that development requires the removal of sources of "unfreedom" - poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities, as well as systemic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities and intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

    My Sinchew - 2009

  • But his "unfreedom" is to be continued by restrictions on his movements and his contacts: He cannot leave Israel, he will be confined to a single town, he cannot communicate with foreigners face to face or by phone, fax or e-mail (purely punitive conditions because any classified information that he may have possessed is by now nearly two decades old).

    Nuclear Hero's 'Crime' Was Making Us Safer 2010

  • Fortunately we no longer have the burden of the "unfreedom" imposed by tyranny and the denial of political and civil liberties by an authoritarian regime.

    ANC Today 2004

  • One of the first Marxists to lose faith in the Soviet system, Marcuse saw the West as also in a state of "unfreedom" and often suggested that revolution may be the only path to true freedom.

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • Polish communist youth, not always in agreement with their parents, felt this "unfreedom," as another extremely popular German writer of the mid-sixties, philosopher Herbert Marcuse, called it.

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • Fortunately we no longer have the burden of the "unfreedom" imposed by tyranny and the denial of political and civil liberties by an authoritarian regime.

    ANC Today 2004

  • Friedman then draws his napkin-graph, and much to the pundit's surprise, it turns out that there is almost an exact correlation between high oil prices and "unfreedom"!

    doggdot.us 2009

  • Friedman then draws his napkin-graph, and much to the pundit's surprise, it turns out that there is almost an exact correlation between high oil prices and "unfreedom"!

    MoJo Blogs and Articles By Kevin Drum 2009

  • Friedman then draws his napkin-graph, and much to the pundit's surprise, it turns out that there is almost an exact correlation between high oil prices and "unfreedom"!

    Prose Before Hos 2009

  • Friedman then draws his napkin-graph, and much to the pundit's surprise, it turns out that there is almost an exact correlation between high oil prices and "unfreedom"!

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • We might say that the freedom capitalism gives us is “the right to starve,” an unfreedom that gives rise to the authoritarianism fostered by economic insecurity in the 1970s and beyond.

    Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly Astra Taylor 2023

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