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Comment author: [deleted] 25 November 2013 03:32:03PM -2 points [-]

Marx made no bones with categories of "oppressor" or "oppressed" whatsoever. He dealt in economic classes defined by their relation to the means of production: worker and capitalist. He actually despised the criminal lumpenproletariat.

Comment author: ChristianKl 25 November 2013 08:15:50PM 2 points [-]

According to Marx capitalists do oppress their workers.