Isolation for the purpose of abuse
Isolation is often used to get more power over a person. This power is then used for abuse. Isolating the victim from the outside world is important to get psychological control over the victim. Isolation reduces the opportunity of the victim to be rescued. It will also make the victim more dependent on the abuser.
This includes controlling a persons social activity: the people they see, the people they talk to, and the places they visit. Sometimes it also includes controlling the material they read. It can also include wanting to know where the victim is. Very often, a victim has to get permission to get medical treatment.
Isolation is often combined with other forms of abuse:
Cults often use these techniques.
Divide and conquer
Divide and conquer, also called divide and rule, is a strategy to gain and maintain power. This is done by breaking up bigger groups into smaller ones, The smaller groups are easier to control. The original Latin phrase is divide et impera (which translates as 'divide and command'),
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Smear campaign
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Class consciousness
In Marxism, class consciousness is one's awareness (consciousness) of where one belongs in a system of social classes.
According to Marx, there are two classes in capitalism. They are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie take advantage of the proletariat and control the means of production. The proletariat class has more people than the bourgeoisie but do not own the means of production. The proletariat are usually workers.
According to Marxism, many members of the proletariat class have false consciousness. That means they usually think about themselves and are not aware of the class struggle going on in society or how the proletariat is being hurt by the bourgeoisie. An example of false consciousness would be the idea of the American Dream.
When enough members of the proletariat have class consciousness, they will be able to unite and overthrow the capitalist system.
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Escudé died on 1 January 2021 in Buenos Aires from COVID-19 at aged 72.
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Mesbah Yazdi died on 1 January 2020 in Tehran at aged 85.
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Korenev died of COVID-19 on January 2, 2020 in Moscow, aged 80.
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However it is unknown if Morris and the Aglin brothers escaped alive or drowned to death. The inmates who escaped created fake heads to trick the guards into thinking they were asleep in their cells. They also made a raft to escape.
In 1979, the FBI officially closed its investigation, saying that the men drowned in San Francisco Bay, while trying to reach land. However, the United States Marshals Service has continued to keep the escapees on its wanted list as many people reported to have seen them in Florida, Maryland and even Brazil.
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Dumile died on 31 October 2020, aged 49. His death was announced two months later on 31 December by his wife.
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Pope was a special envoy to Libya from October 11, 2012 until January 4, 2013 during the aftermath of the 2012 Benghazi attack.
Pope died on October 31, 2020 at his home in Portland, Maine from cardiac arrest caused by pancreatic cancer, aged 75.
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Austin died on 1 January 2021 at the age of 52.
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