Truly free, one also needs to have considerable economic freedom, to be able to change jobs or occupations if one wishes, to be independent from state economic as well as political controls, and to have some autonomy or space both politically and economically separate from the government. Only a free market system helps preserve those rights since, if you have political rights but not the economic rights and independence that liberalism, provides, then you are not free at all. Liberalism is thus contrasted with totalitarianism of both left and right varieties where the state “totally” controls and snuffs out not only all political rights but all economic freedoms as well. Modern social democracy seeks, with mixed results, to avoid this dilemma by having freedom and democracy in the political sphere but an extensive welfare state economically.