More generally, all forms of oppression involve casting groups and individuals as Other than what the oppressor is. And, in human history, nature has played the role of Other par excellence.
It is therefore not surprising that, when individuals and groups are marginalized within, or excluded from, society, they are oft en portrayed as bestial or animal- like, inhuman or not fully human, instinctive and irrational. In virtually all cases, the oppressor targets an individual or group as merely natural.
For example, in totalitarian movements such as Nazism (or CCP), members monopolize “all the so- called sublime and lofty concepts, while the terms they use for what they persecute and destroy–base, insect- like, filthy, subhuman and all the rest–they treat as anathema” (MCP 123) (ibid, p. 88)
so, back to nature implies emancipation, historically
