LIBERATION STRUGGLE SPACES

We assume that there are such things as social oppression whereby people, or at least some
group of people, the oppressed, are seriously taken advantage of or otherwise exploited by generally a relative few, the oppressors. These egregiously unequal or exploitative relationships
are enduring and persistent or they are something else, something less than social oppression because it is something less than a broad social phenomenon.


Of course there are different spheres of social oppression at any given time in any given place. We can readily list the oppression of labor, the oppression of women, the oppression of racial or ethnic groups, the oppression of gays, bisexuals, lesbians and trans folks, etc..

Social oppression takes place at numerous levels in society. Sometimes it is what a person
does to herself, within her own head! Sometimes we live by the rules the oppressive relationship expects of us, sometimes we have little choice, and in those circumstances we
will find the oppressor developing all sorts of ideas representative of his social situation as the
oppressor and that the oppressed may develop, does to some extent develop the oppressed point of view which is generally one of discontent unless the oppressed individual accepts the oppressed role and basically "stays in her place".

Other times it is one-on-one oppression with no one else directly involved.

Then there is that whole universe of small group based oppression within or between groups.

Moving in the macro direction we have institutional, more culturally global mechanisms of oppression which can have many working parts include legislation, judicial and law enforcement, how resources are distributed, opportunities provided and wealth ultimately consumed.

Depending upon how history unfolds we may see nations either befriend or antagonize one another.

Some even imagine a worldwide clash of Islamic and Christian cultures, one wonders where the huge portion of the world's population who are neither Christian nor Islamic fit into that story.

Of course we cannot fail to note the ultimate oppression, the destruction of our own ecosystem
basically because of irrational and market driven economic decisions and reactionary, backward, social institutions that stymie the rational management of worldwide, national, regional, and local development.