Why is there a guillotine there?
There’s a period of French history where it was often used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
Also, we have abolished the death penalty because it’s a barbaric practice, what about you?
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I’m a middle class North American earning over twice the global 1% income cut-off. If there’s any real justice, I’ll be second up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Luckily for me, there’s not that much justice going around.
The level of inequality is a serious danger to our society and to our governance in general. I and my ilk should be looking at some serious tax increases to pay for desperately needed social programs.
But I’m not going to pretend there’s a huge moral canyon between my greed and the “elites”. It’s not as if inequality and the ethical responsibility to ease it stops at the border. It is possible, and a hell of a lot healthier, to us to fight hard for a better world without seeing our opponents as evil or ourselves as ethically vastly superior.
It may be classist, but it’s quite an old observation:
Thus, by reducing inequality, you emancipate the poor
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Why do you keep calling a hypothetical uprising from below that results in spilt blood “mass murder” instead of self defense?
Why does a mass uprising from below represent to you a lack of will instead of the final realization of will? Why must the alienated and atomized poor wait for “good governance” and meanwhile suffer “cultural attitudes” being “fostered” in them by their good governing betters, lest they too exuberantly seek to secure their own survival and their own rights?
Asking for a friend.
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These seem relevant…
Quotes from Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds
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Yeah, things need to be very dire indeed that a revolution is likely to result in something better. As screwed up as the US is, I really don’t think it’s anywhere near that point yet.
Because the elites are seen as being justified in their actions, while the poor never are justified.
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Too many commenters here sound like they think they are “temporarily embarrassed millionaires…”
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They have their bootstraps at the ready! 
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Too late.
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