When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessities of life, places them in conditions in which they cannot live,—forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence—knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual.

One of the core tenants of neoliberal education is that violence is always wrong, it’s never the answer, etc. They repeat it so often and in so many places because it’s at obvious odds with the state. They use violence against us so often and on such wide scales that their only option is to convince that it’s not violence.

Over producing with limited resources is violence. Throwing away food while people starve is violence. Leaving buildings empty while people die of the cold on the street is violence. Preventing the sick and dying from accessing healthcare is violence. Evicting people from their homes is violence. Depriving the chronically ill and physically disabled of the means of survival because they can’t generate capital for capitalists is violence. Climate change is violence.

The truth is that they deeply fear what we would do if we actually recognized all those things as violence. They do literally everything in their power to prevent us from achieving class consciousness. They have infected literally every single facet of society in an effort to keep us from seeing each other as human.

“Social murder” is a term coined by Friedrich Engels in 1845 and used to describe murder committed by the political and social elite where they knowingly permit conditions to exist where the poorest and most vulnerable in society are deprived of the necessities of life and are placed in a position in which they cannot reasonably be expected to live and will inevitably meet an early and unnatural death.

Millions of us bat eyes at casual death. Don’t pretend we haven’t been talking about this kind of tragedy for years.

(It’s a classic deflection tactic. Pretend public awareness didn’t exist to justify past failure to act, ostensibly pretending future action is soon to follow.)

Honestly, I think we’re more likely to continue the current system of one CEO a year getting the Scrooge treatment.

We have the Christmas Ghosts on the payroll already! LET THEM DO THEIR JOBS! ENFORCE THE GHOSTS ON THE BOOKS!

It’s a crime to kill someone, yet billions of animals are killed for food daily. Kinda fucked up

Americans who hate Communists: corporations in America are behaving exactly like Stalin

I WANT to comment because the post is ‘on the correct side’, but it doesn’t really bring anything new to the table; so im just going to comment to say im not going to comment