Definition of "liberatory"

One of the difficulties facing efforts to constitute a radicalized articulation of ecology remains that nature has been more firmly affixed to hegemonic discourses, e.g. consumerism or "resourceism" than to liberatory discourses.

2006, Atenea, volumes 26-27

In the case of Rothbard, for example, crusader's faith in the efficiency and liberatory potential of the invisible hand is resolutely resistant to the piled-up evidence that it's a catastrophe for the many.

2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto