i was so into the guillotine because i thought we were all on the same page that the guillotine is obviously fucked up and the wrong way to solve social problems, as evidenced by, you know, the history of the guillotine
narrator voice: we were not all on the same page
narrator voice: we were not all on the same page
like i love the guillotine as a symbol because it's a symbol of revolutionary violence that carries within it the necessary critique of revolutionary violence that we need to be VERY aware of whenever we talk about revolution.
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"after the revolution" no one is against the fucking wall because the idea of putting people up against the wall and shooting them is part of what we're having a revolution against.
i'm not even a fucking pacifist. it's a really simple equation: do you have power over someone? then you shouldn't hurt them. Do they have power over you? then sometimes hurting them is a reasonable way to fix that problem.
"Vengeance is unbecoming of an anarchist."
-Kurt Wilckens, an anarchist pacifist who, in 1923, assassinated an Argentinian officer responsible for the massacre of hundreds of indigenous and anarchist striking workers in Patagonia
-Kurt Wilckens, an anarchist pacifist who, in 1923, assassinated an Argentinian officer responsible for the massacre of hundreds of indigenous and anarchist striking workers in Patagonia
"Vengeance is unworthy of an Anarchist! The dawn, our dawn, claims no quarrels, no crimes, no lies; it affirms life, love, science; we work to hasten that day."
