Oligarchs hate this one weird trick
This 18th Century French Doctor Has a Solution to Oligarchy…
Submitted 3 days ago by merari42@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Worx@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
charonn0@startrek.website 2 days ago
The overwhelming majority of the people guillotined during the French revolution were innocent commoners.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
The point of The Terror was to burn the Révolution into the skulls of generations to come by making it so horrible the ownership class would be terrified into treating the working class nicely (this was before class consciousness, so it was the Petit Bourgeoisie that actually formed the Assemblée nationale representing the third estate. They, too, are ownership class, once Marx sorted it all out.)
This is why heads had to be piled high. We were supposed to be scared into civility. But as the early 20th century demonstrated to us, it didn’t work, and we still have people voting for far-right parties in order to vote against neoliberalism (which is happening a lot in Europe right now, and is a sound explanation of why Trump still got so many votes.)
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Every ethical society requires a healthy and robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 3 days ago
here’s a “fun” (read “insane”) fact: France abolished the death penalty in 1981; the last execution by guillotine took place in 1977
Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And Christopher Lee was in attendance
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Another fun fact: The blade wasn’t sharpened during the revolution properly, so they would have to drop the blade multiple times to get a full cut.
sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com 2 days ago
Oh this is actual nightmare territory… Wish my brain’s imagination wasn’t so good
Thrawne@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I want to celebrate July 14th in the states
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
This is the only American I know of who is crazy enough to have the right idea.
Bernar_moustach@jlai.lu 3 days ago
Not a shitpost!
girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Fun fact: the doctor in question was opposed to the death penalty, and proposed the guillotine thinking he could at least make it more humane. He deeply regretted this action and spent the rest of his life campaigning against it. His family was so ashamed that they changed their surname.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin
girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
While I’m still raining on your parade:
crimethinc.com/…/against-the-logic-of-the-guillot…
MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 days ago
Good article. Long, but good. As it was published in 2019, it references the then current events.
Rooty@lemmy.world 2 days ago
THANK YOU. The constant glazing of The Reign of Terror on lemmy is sickening. It was named like that for a reason.
bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2 days ago
I’ve thought of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation process as example of what is encouraged by Crimethinc here and up until now as a wonderful role model.
But today we have the white supremacists who escaped the South African revolution recreating apartheid in the US and can’t help but think it would have been better if one of them had survived.