"For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape."

Source : Mark Davis, Zygmunt Bauman (2008). “Freedom and Consumerism: A Critique of Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology”, p.91, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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