"Idea of freedom in liberalism is only a negative freedom.
It means that liberals
defend only 'freedom from', and not 'freedom for'. But negative freedom has content only when you compare liberalism with non-liberal system. In the Modernity, those are totalitarian regimes of communism or fascism. In that case, liberalism is working, because the negative freedom is a freedom from totalitarian regime. So it is something real. But when all those totalitarian regimes were defeated by liberalism, there was only one ideology which prevailed on the global scale. And in that situation, the limits of liberalism appeared, because the freedom in liberalism is real only compared to communism or fascism. When liberalism is compared to itself, it begins to manifest its totalitarian nature. Because now liberalism gives you a freedom to be liberal, but it takes off a freedom to be illiberal. In a liberal society you can be a right-wing liberal or a left-wing liberal, but you cannot be illiberal. This totalitarian nature of liberalism appeared after the triumph of liberalism. And we should deal with this status quo, not project the shadows of the past, not compare liberalism with communism or fascism. That all belongs to the past. The most dangerous enemy of the freedom now is the negative freedom of totalitarian liberalism." (Aleksandr Dugin)