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What does oppression mean?

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Noun
  1. The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
  2. The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
  3. A feeling of being oppressed.
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Also I have never separated the class struggle from the struggle for women's liberation or against religious oppression.
The last example invokes an Afrocentric royal African lineage and past in order to salvage a self-esteem beaten down by oppression.
There will always be oppression, people who jockey themselves into positions to control and exploit others.
In 1967 a military junta overthrew the government in Greece and established a brutal regime of oppression.
In an absurdist prose poem he wrote at the time, renewal is associated with class-based oppression.
For the sort of oppression they favour is the seed from which all racialism, including anti-Semitism, grows.

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