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In an authoritarian state… | blogjou

Edward Snowden

Permanent Record

pp. 206-207
12 Nov 2019

In an authoritarian state...


In an authoritarian state, rights derive from the state and are granted to the people. In a free state, rights derive from the people and are granted to the state. […] It’s this clash, between the authoritarian and the liberal democratic, that I believe to be the major ideological conflict of my time - not some concocted, prejudiced notion of an East-West divide, or a resurrected crusade against Christendom or Islam.