Word: oppressor
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...talks of capitalism oppressing people. True. But nowhere in his grand design of liberation does he include these "oppressed peoples." Removing the oppressor is a very good idea but removing the oppressor does not necessarily liberate the oppressed. You talked of Algeria in some context, so let's look at it. Once the poorer people were ruled by the French. Now they are ruled by an Algerian elite. True, the colonialists were removed by terrorism and the threat of civil war in France. But it didn't change matters for the oppressed people. Instead of the instrument of oppression being...
...favor with the court, and his appearance at military inspection once with a toy sword. The husband of his mistress is the head of the court police, and his rival for the younger woman is the police chief's assistant. Thus, as with Pushkin, the court is his oppressor in his personal as well as political life, and can use the one as excuse to rid themselves of the disturbance he causes in the other...
...Warwick) who are restless, cynical and chafing under the discipline of the house whips. They spend a lot of their time sneaking swigs of vodka and planning romantic acts of rebellion. After a particularly strenuous caning by the head whip, the three take a blood oath: "Death to the oppressor!" They turn a school military exercise into a rout by threatening to bayonet an officer, and later sabotage the school's Speech Day ceremonies by detonating a smoke bomb and gunning down faculty, parents and students as they stream out of the auditorium. The film ends with...
Until a decade ago, the Negro could still regard the Jew as a fellow victim of white society. Now there is a widespread feeling that the oppressed has become the oppressor, and that the Jew has become part of the white Establishment. "The mood of the black ghetto is that the dominant WASP gave the Negro franchise to the Jewish community," says Daniel Watts, editor of the radical monthly Liberator. In light of their past brotherhood, the Negro is all the more outraged by what he feels is the betrayal by the Jew. "We expect more of him, and when...
People who are oppressed want the oppressor off their backs. If he happens to be Italian, somebody's going to say you're anti-Italian. It's ridiculous. It only becomes a charge of anti-Semitism when some person needs a political platform. It's all part of a very definite effort on the part of some people who are trying to keep the black community isolated and fragmented...