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'''Oppression''' is "the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner".<ref>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Oppression</ref> [[Marxism]] teaches that the [[proletariat]] is oppressed by the [[bourgeoisie]].
'''Oppression''' is "the exercise of [[authority]] or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner".<ref>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Oppression</ref>
==Contradictions in Marxist theory==
[[Marxism]] declared that the "[[proletariat]]" is oppressed by the "[[bourgeoisie]]" (i.e., ruling class), yet in every country where [[Socialists]]-[[National Socialist]]s-[[Marxists]]-[[Communists]] have taken power the result has been much worse oppression.
* Attempts to free ordinary people from oppression repeatedly led to what [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] frankly called "servility" to new [[despot]]s. - [[Thomas Sowell]] [https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Earth-Rise-Fall-Socialism/dp/1893554783]
==Quotes==
* "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our [[liberty]]." -- [[Thomas Jefferson]]
[[C.S. Lewis]] wrote:
:Of all tyrannies, a [[tyranny]] sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral [[busybody|busybodies]]. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own [[conscience]]. <ref>http://www.tsowell.com/quotes.html</ref>
==See also==
* [[Indoctrination]]
* [[Liberal values]]
* [[Big Government]]
* [[Welfare State]]
* [[Nanny State]]
* [[Police state]]
==References==
==References==
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