The proletariat must demand the right of political secession for the colonies and for the nations that 'its own' nation oppresses.
After every signature is checked by the electoral commission, the vote will be challenged in the country's constitutional court by the hunters, who claim it oppresses a cherished minority right – to shoot migrating birds.
"THE Maoist revolution aims to get rid of the whole economic, political and social system that oppresses the people," wrote Li Onesto, an American fan of Nepal's Maoists, in 2005.
"I dodged bullets in the US military for 22 years," says James Glover, a local preacher, "and then I come home to see a flag that oppresses me flying over the State House".
The Turkish secular model you mention is the darling of the West although the military establishment oppresses elected Islamists and imposes "secularism" on all and sundry.
"The volcano is there, but it is held in place by the heavy mountain of the Arab state, which oppresses its people very well and has learned how to play the game of elections".
What do we make of the "peasant consciousness" that we admired then but that oppresses us now?
People who argued for such a state, he wrote, "have only one purpose to preserve the status quo…A self-serving state destroys society, oppresses it and in the end destroys itself.
The prince, he insists, is he who rules in accordance with law, while a tyrant is one who oppresses the people by irresponsible power.
In his best-known and most influential work, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964), he argued that the modern capitalist "affluent" society oppresses even those who are successful within it while maintaining their complacency through the ersatz satisfactions of consumer culture.
Black women's attempts to voice the fact that white women, like white men, benefit from a system that oppresses minorities, is often written off as separatism.
