I didn't get a chance to reread this yet, unfortunately, so I may be a bit fuzzy on the contents of individual chapters. But my personal takeaway from the early chapters, was realizing how whitewashed and specific colonizers/capitalists have managed to confine our definition of violence. From passive voices about police shootings to anaodyne language around military invasions, our culture works very hard to make sure that violence is seen as a physicial action of the "lesser" people of our society; Unwarranted and Uncouth. Riots are never framed as uprisings, theft is never framed as expropriation. By refusing to acknowledge the grievances of the lower classes in our language, the Cultural Hegemony erases the crimes of the ruling class.

This realization combined with the idea of Social Murder blew my brain open. By a small miracle, a short time later I ended up reading Blackshirts and Reds followed by The Jakarta Method.