The most oppressed group in all history is NOT who most people think, not at all. Now, most would expect me to name, say the Jews, or perhaps Africans, or women for that matter. Well, you'd be right about how badly they've been treated. You'd be wrong, however. Some people might expect me to say The Irish. Wrong again.

No, sports fans, the most oppressed group of people is the working classes. Open and shut case. The most dramatic oppression that occurs is ECONOMIC. By far. Light years ahead of anything else. The other constructs, such as race, gender, orientation, religion, none of these hold a candle to economic oppression. Think about it: From the beginning of time, you had an elite owner class and masses of people that worked for them to manufacture, transport, maintain, sell, and consume their products.

Think about it. Seriously. Just look at the United States: from the very beginning, half the wealth of this nation has been controlled by less than 10% of the population, and many of these people work in Congress. Do you really think that it was about race? No, not at all. Oppression is almost always about one thing, and that, my friends, is the money, and in the last 10 years, especially thanks to Georgie, the gap has only been getting wider and wider.

Ok, what about other places? Like, say Africa. Well, Africa used to be largely controlled by European colonial powers, and in the wake of the unraveling of the colonial period, the proprietorship of the natural resources went with the wealthy colonial class. For instance, the diamond trade. Where do you think de Beers got its start?

Now I do not advocate communism or socialism. Going by the historical record, both are an ideological pathway to authoritarianism and tyranny by either a party minority or by the majority. Just because a state has an elitist ruling class that calls itself communist doesn't mean that the fact of having an elitist, oppressive, ruling elite is justifiable. Also, communism and socialism have no provision for reward to match effort or innovation.

The working majority of the planet earth is the group who have suffered the most oppression, far more than any ethnic group, and those people in those ethnic groups are part of the working masses of the human race, which only proves my point.