Fetishizing the guillotine is like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us.

I don’t know if this was posted here before, but I think it something that must be read by a lot of the folks on Lemmy.

  • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netM
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    10 months ago

    The guillotine has come to occupy our collective imagination. In a time when the rifts in our society are widening towards civil war, it represents uncompromising bloody revenge. It represents the idea that the violence of the state could be a good thing if only the right people were in charge.

    The text is not against revolt, violent revolution or killing oppressors as self defense. Its just advising us to not think like the state.