When we are considering radical biblical politics there are a number of texts in the Judeo-Christian tradition that can inform our discussion.
In Egypt the Israelites endured nearly four centuries of oppression. During that time, as far as we know, the people didn’t see any sign of liberation on the horizon. Then, one day, God comes across Moses. God knows Moses is the man for the job. He is the kind of man who will act; but, having been chastened by painful experience, is the kind of man who will act carefully. So God approaches Moses to ask him to help him intervene. And Exodus is the story of their struggle to liberate the Israelites from slavery in Egypt

^Exod.3:1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. ²There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. ³So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight – why the bush does not burn up.”
⁴When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” ⁵“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” ⁶Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
⁷The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. ⁸So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey… ¹⁰So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
^7:1Then the LORD said to Moses, ” I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. ²You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. ³But … ⁴he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out the Israelites. ⁵And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.”
⁶ (And so … ) Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD commanded them.

Note: God loves everybody equally, but has a particular concern for the oppressed. God’s concern for the oppressed expresses itself in a call to action. And, in this particular situation, the call to action involves God’s people participating, body and soul, in a bloody struggle for total liberation.
The Exodus story is a very powerful paradigm for oppressed people to use in responding to their oppression. But we must take care in interpreting it. Is the Exodus story a paradigm for praxis? A strategy for those who suffer oppression – to seize the day and liberate themselves right here and now? Or is the Exodus story a paradigm for hope? A solace for those who suffer oppression for hundreds of years – that one day their liberation will come? We need to remember in the Exodus original story, God guides the struggle – and we need to let God guide our struggle too!