The document discusses Team Resistance and their connections to declarations of independence and individual rights and freedoms from influential documents. It also discusses classical liberal thinkers like John Locke, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx. It examines rejections to liberalism like communism, fascism, and uses of secret police. It analyzes circumstances that made communism and fascism appealing in Russia and Germany. It considers elements of both systems that could be considered liberal and debates the justifications for their rejections of liberalism. Finally, it compares these historical examples to the contemporary Taliban and draws conclusions.