To me that seems so clear. Oppression is oppression. Being the underdog is being the underdog. Being treated with contempt is being treated with contempt. Being treated violently is being treated violently.
People respond the same way to it.
When you get right down to it, pain is pain. But showing that obvious point is radical, and was radical at the time you did it, because of the boxes that are created to avoid make those connections. Well, radical ideas are always very simple, it seems to me, for precisely that reason. And they're only radical because of those obstacles. Not because of their complexity.