Mr Service makes a strong case that "poverty and oppression constituted the best soil for Marxism to grow in".
Broadening the scope of investigations of the interaction of injustice and illocutionary phenomena, McGowan 2009 argues that some speech acts can not only cause but also constitute instances of oppression.
The call by white feminists for unity and solidarity was based on their assumption that women constituted a gender-based class or caste that was unified by common oppression.
It is true that oppressive social conditions do not typically produce pathologies or cognitive impairments; neither do the social conditions of oppression usually constitute direct coercion sufficient to erode autonomy.
As Recode reported, in an after-hours meeting with the trial's lawyers on Tuesday evening, Kahn asked, "What evidence is there of malice, fraud or oppression (the standard for punitive damages in California law) by someone at Kleiner Perkins? …I am having trouble myself right now articulating what a reasonable juror would find that constitutes malice, fraud or oppression".
The concept of oppression, then, constitutes more than the cruel and repressive actions of individuals upon others, such as the actions and words of Worley, Harris, and Phelps and their followers.
The uprising of the Hutus, who constituted the great majority, was a response to what they regarded, not unreasonably, as vicious oppression and had the sympathy of liberal opinion throughout the world, prior to 1994.
[S]ocial and economic conditions in the looted areas constituted a clear pattern of severe disadvantage for Negroes compared with whites... Our investigation arrives at the clear conclusion that the riot in Baltimore must be attributed to two elements -- 'white racism' and economic oppression of the Negro.
The other interpretation is that it could come to constitute an international system of oppression, with extradition used against ordinary individuals such as political activists, allowing one state's oppression to spread beyond its frontiers.
The original impetus for the study was found in Rwanda's 2004 Gender Policy, which acknowledged that sexual harassment was a problem for girls in school and that it could nevertheless constitute a significant form of oppression and discrimination for Rwandan women at work [ 13].
