Word: oppressores
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...greatest foreign ministers. Even your own excellent paper seems hardly to have noticed that a great democratic leader has also died. Surely this must mean more to the immediate future of Europe than the almost unavoidable assassination of one who, for all his virtues, has proved a cruel oppressor of a large Croatian minority. Admittedly a human story is always good news value; admittedly also we are here immeasurably remote from the dangers which beset European nations; but surely such a crude outburst of excessive sentimentality is out of place. We cannot find a serious attempt to put these events...
...myth of Capital as the oppressor rests upon a verbal confusion of Capital with capitalists, a factual confusion ot capitalists with managers, and a misconception of the powers and desires of managers. Material capital does, of course, oppress certain forms of labor (or more truly of mental capital) when a new invention replaces their skill by a machine and requires them to fall back on mere unskilled labor as their offering to purchase the world's goods. But in the long run it is a great aid and weapon of labor...
...after his release, this virtuous man is mercilessly hounded by Police Inspector Javert. At the summit of every achievement, Valjean is forced to flee from the scene of his good work by the appearance of this symbol of lawful duty, this relentless fury. In the end, he saves his oppressor's life...
...means from which the end inevitably follows. They did not preach murder, but they preached the premises of which murder is the consequence. In Parliament, in the press and in the public speeches, they inculcated hatred of England. They taught that her claims were unjust, that she was the oppressor of Egypt and that all forms of resistance to her would be right and praiseworthy, were they but possible...
...later, when the New York Police Force had managed to quell the open warfare popular in the Bowery, it became the custom for warlike gentlemen imbued with the ideals of liberty and justice to go south and help the ineffective Latin-Americans throw off the yoke of the oppressor. Often enough, these soldiers of fortune ended their romantic careers against an adobe wall, facing a dark-skinned firing squad. More often, after winning battles for one faction or another they found themselves deserted with no alternative but basis retreat to New York...