Mark Twain:
“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
John Steinbeck:
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
This fucking loser:
uh guilloitines are acktually violence, little missy. how dare you try to bring violence into the system which we live under???
And then I posted it on Twitter because nobody understood my level of genius and now I am proper hard for pwning a college student
Thinking about how they use the word "genocide" in relation to the idea of getting rid of capitalists, who are an economic power group and cease to be part of that group if their capital and connections to it are taken away.
Like how do you arrive at the point of thinking genocide is a legitimate word to use in that context. I don't get it.
Not to mention that the kind of systematic violence that would prove necessary to liquidate the capitalist class includes at worst the execution of thousands.
Anyone who calls for austerity and cuts to social welfare spending is far more a proponent of genocide than any anti-capitalist; after all, they seek to execute millions.
Reminds me of this garbage: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579316913982034286
The point was lost on her.
Maybe that was because advocating for capitalism is allowed in your class despite the violence that it requires in order to sustain itself.
my biggest issue with this is, why would you send a guillotine to the capitalists? You're supposed to round them up and bring them to the guillotine, that is just simple transportation logistics. They aren't going to open up their Amazon package, assemble the guillotine themselves and put their own heads in it.
She isn't sending them a guillotine, she's sending them TO the guillotines. You're on the same page here
Imagine being so triggered by it that he had to tweet about it looking for some validation.
