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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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Each chapter takes a detailed and wide-ranging look at aspects of Marxist theory such as alienation, oppression, the family and class struggle.
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.
This adds up to more than 500 million people, who have been saved from the jaws of oppression and dominance.
For the sort of oppression they favour is the seed from which all racialism, including anti-Semitism, grows.
Plunder and rapine made her rich, and her oppression of millions made her great.

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