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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>   

'''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==

==Contradictions in Marxist theory==

[[Marxism]] declared that the "[[proletariat]]" is oppressed by the "[[bourgeoisie]]" (i.e., ruling class), yet in every country where Marxists have taken power the result has been much worse oppression.

[[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 despots. - [[Thomas Sowell]] [http://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Earth-Rise-Fall-Socialism/dp/1893554783/ref=cm_lmf_tit_9_rdssss0]

* 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]

 

 

 

: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==

* [[Police state]]

==References==

==References==

 

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