The essence of liberalism—and that’s “liberalism” as defined in its broad sense of the stage where bourgeois “freedoms” became paramount—is violence. Structural violence that can’t be ended unless liberalism itself gets defeated. It was innate to the system from its beginning, because the function of liberalism was to preserve capitalism and its extractive mechanisms following the defeat of feudalism and monarchism. Capitalism requires an impoverished class in order to survive, along with tools for preventing that disenfranchised element from resisting this system that exploits, displaces, and destroys them. So subjugation and brutality are always present under liberalism, because the socioeconomic order that liberalism was designed to reinforce is a parasitic one which entails an imbalance of power.