Apr 9, 2020
Or recall the speech in Euripides’ The Suppliants, describing a free polis as one in which the rule of law allows equal justice to rich and poor, strong and weak alike, where anyone who has something useful to say has the right to speak before the public – that is, where there is isegoria – but also where the free citizen does not labour just in order to enrich a tyrant by his toil. There is something here which is completely absent from, and even antithetical to, the later European concept of liberty.
Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism
