The enslavement of the free individual: Chiaromonte's remarks on the nature of contemporary tyranny

From exile in Paris until emigration to the United States, Chiaromonte took on those distinctive characteristics that would later define him as a citizen of the world. He developed his thought following those socialist-liberal principles according to which the individual and society are mutually united in an organic whole. These ideas led him to sharply criticise not only fascism and all totalitarianism but also the structure of post-war Western societies. What he sees in modern Western mass societies is an obsolete form of freedom. This freedom is what modern man is satisfied with in a society now dominated by consumerism, mechanisation of existence and calculation. His insights anticipate many of the evils that afflict contemporary societies