Rock, Paper, Scissors — The Cyclical Politics of Oppression

Remarkl
4 min readJul 19, 2020
Photo by Marcus Wallis on Unsplash

Perhaps triggered by my own previous article, I have come to think of movement politics as a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. The “moves” are Justice, Freedom, and Tyranny. The rules are simple: Justice suppresses Freedom, Tyranny hijacks Justice, and Freedom overthrows Tyranny.

Marxists movements exhibit the flow of the game. A revolution is mounted against…

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