"Political liberation" refers to the freedom and empowerment of individuals or groups from oppressive or unjust political systems or regimes. It involves gaining rights, participating in decision-making, and being able to express opinions without fear of punishment or discrimination. It aims to remove barriers that limit people's ability to have a voice and make choices that shape their own lives and the society they live in.
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He was critical of capitalism and thought that Christian leaders should be concerned with the economic and
political liberation of their followers.
The only reason for setting the movie in 1969 is as a reaction against the personal and
political liberation of the time.
On a scale of 1 to 10, Jones predicts that process theology will tally 6 points of compatibility with liberation theology's gospel and mission of economic, social, and
political liberation for the wretched of the earth.
A system that in Marx's vision would result in economic abundance and
political liberation wound up in practice as economically ruinous and politically tyrannical.
Class struggle is an effort of social groups oppressed by the class structure of the society in order to overcome this division and obtain their
social political liberation.
Among the texts most often assigned were Jonathan Kozol's «Savage Inequalities,» an indictment of schooling in poor urban neighborhoods, and writings by Paulo Freire, who advocates education to
achieve political liberation.
Hardship and sacrifice seemed like rather quaint & irrelevant concepts, while sexual &
political liberation beckoned as a far more enjoyable way to embrace young adulthood.
Initially motivated by an interest in the idea of «self - obliteration» and
political liberation during the Vietnam War, the more recent examples see Kusama's interest turning more toward a cosmic social harmony.
However, the more insecure the future of a liberal, secular society appears to be, the more confident I feel about the future of religion — not a future in relation to emancipation and economic and / or
political liberation.
He presented nature not simply in terms of its appearance and utility to human beings but as having «its own rights and equilibria».2 The passage is in the chapter entitled «Ways towards
the political liberation of man», which suggests that Moltmann had no problem extending his already broad use of «political» to include the ecological as well.
As theology wrestles with the issue of theodicy in its revised form of ethnic suffering and quietism, as it formulates a theology of social, economic and
political liberation, and as it accommodates the marked theological particularity that flows from the emergence of ethnic, feminist and Third World theologies, the acknowledgment of functional ultimacy will accelerate.
Second, one might view this as a post-socialist era for theoretical reasons: Given the historical record of socialism in this century, one can say with some assurance that all the claims made for it have been decisively falsified» be it in terms of economic performance, of
political liberation, of social equality, or of the quality of life.
The radical paradigm that informs the new racism is a melodrama of social domination and
political liberation: domination by an oppressing class, liberation through civil conflict.
However, those sources, so important to the many who were longing for a national,
political liberation, were not adequate.
His gospel was not one of
political liberation, but that He was the Messiah, the Lamb of God, who came to take away the sin of the world.
There's a lovely article over on Quartz about the appendix George Orwell wrote for his book, «1984», about how both poltical oppression and
political liberation are both so intertwined WITH LANGUAGE: