“Neither is oppression limited to only mainstream or hegemonic socio-political and economic relations and institutions. In fact, oppression can and often does inhabit those formations — such as social movements — avowedly or allegedly fashioned to confront and abolish it.” (Haiven and Khasnabish, The Radical Imagination, Loc 1920 of 4059)
“A concrete, critical engagement with oppression was (perhaps unintentionally but no less problematically) denied in favour of a highly abstracted and intellectualized discussion of politics that became dominated by many of the young white male activists in attendance.” (Loc 1959 of 4059)
“movements that fail to engage oppression critically and systematically (and its connections to exploitation and economic power) not only fail to challenge the dominant order effectively, they reproduce it.” (Loc 3098 of 4059)