Liberation appears immediately necessary only to the oppressed

Evidence

For if it is true that the cause of freedom is the cause of each one, it is also true that the urgency of liberation is not the same for all; Marx has rightly said that it is only to the oppressed that it appears as immediately necessary. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 89

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Grounds the typology: the seriousness and adventurism accessible to the privileged are denied to the oppressed, so bad faith takes different forms by class.

Related

• The oppressed face fewer temptations to bad faith than the privileged (similarity 0.81)
• The oppressed class has only a negative self-definition, which is why oppression must end (similarity 0.80)
• Authoritarian movements demand members surrender their own freedom for a promised liberation. (similarity 0.79)
• Genuine freedom requires accepting permanent tension rather than seeking rest (similarity 0.79)
• Both oppressed and oppressors fear freedom, but differently (similarity 0.79)