Yes. Freedom is only the positive expression for the same thing negatively expressed by constraint. Liberals speak about abstract freedom when they really mean a specific set of constraints, constraints which allow for imperialism but which deny dignity for the masses.

To Saleh’s point, communists should insist on this difference, on the specific contradictory character of bourgeois “freedom”, and how there are other (obviously better) kinds of freedom that are not organized around private property. It is a theoretical point not easily packaged for the layperson, but could include simple messages about , who legally murdered and maimed many people through denial of medical care, who enjoy a freedom that is at odds with a working class conception of freedom.

I haven’t read as much theory as many people here but I do talk to a lot of working class people. Freedom may have a different meaning in books that what people talk about. The people I talk to care a lot about gaining agency over their lives and they use the word freedom to describe it. It’s important that we can express to them that we feel the same way and need them to join the struggle for their own betterment.