{"id":280,"date":"2002-04-07T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2002-04-07T20:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2002-04-07T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2002-04-07T20:02:01","slug":"the-oppressed-as-restorers-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"the oppressed as restorers of humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAnd this from <a HREF=\"opWin('http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0826406114\/qid=1017736956\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-7251953-3944749', 'bookPop', 'toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,status=yes,left=5,top=0,width=800,height=800,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');\"> &#8216;,CAPTION,&#8217;current.reading&#8217;, LEFT, BELOW, WIDTH, 200, HEIGHT, 244, CSSOFF, BORDER, 1, BGCOLOR, &#8216;#000033&#8217;, FGCOLOR, &#8221;, FGBACKGROUND, &#8216;\/img\/pedagogy.jpg&#8217;);&#8221;&gt;the book<\/a> I am reading:\n<\/p>\n<div>\n. . . sooner or later being less human leads the oppressed to struggle against those who made them so.&nbsp;  In order for this struggle to have meaning, the opressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn opressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their opressors as well.&nbsp;  The oppressors, who oppress, exploit and rape by virtue of their power, cannot find in this power the strength to liberate either the oppressed or themselves.&nbsp;  Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this from &#8216;,CAPTION,&#8217;current.reading&#8217;, LEFT, BELOW, WIDTH, 200, HEIGHT, 244, CSSOFF, BORDER, 1, BGCOLOR, &#8216;#000033&#8217;, FGCOLOR, &#8221;, FGBACKGROUND, &#8216;\/img\/pedagogy.jpg&#8217;);&#8221;&gt;the book I am reading: . . . sooner or later being less human leads the oppressed to struggle against those who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=280\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}