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What does emancipation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
  2. The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).
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The emancipation of the serfs in Russia in 1861 had given a huge boost to the development of capitalism.
He insisted that only Trotskyism could provide the political program for the socialist emancipation of mankind.
Certain others benefited from deliberate and conscious acts of emancipation.
Marx, reacting against the asperities of Capitalism, will establish a metanarrative promising emancipation from exploitation and alienation.
Fundamentalism is a revolt against modernity and one of the characteristics of modernity has been the emancipation of women.
As we see more of the same action and reaction, the overall story, like all stories of the emancipation of unfree labour, is not for romantics.

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