They may think that we are actively oppressing them, but if we are not doing so, then their actions are based on paranoiac delusions and will rebound to worsen their own living conditions.

Equally though:

We may think that we are not actively oppressing them, but if we are doing so, then our actions are based on paranoiac delusions and will rebound to worsen our own living conditions.

A term such as "actively oppressing" is a very imprecise and subjectve one. Does it mean concerted and palnning a programme aimed at oppressing people? Or does it mean that one result of activities carried on is that some people are less free in certain respects than they would otherwise be?