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The Enrage would be super enraged if they learned about this (fedia.io)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/historymemes@lemmy.world
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Explanation: "We should bring back the guillotine" or similar is a common internet quip in response to billionaires doing billionaire things, when in reality the guillotine was invented to provide equal and humane deaths to people of all classes, and from there it was always a tool of the state rather than the people. Not the best euphemism for "we should depose the bourgeoisie." In fact plenty of Revolutionary justice folks were themselves offed by the guillotine during the Terror.

Office meme with smiling manager shaking hands with a confused (???) employee. "The internet left using the guillotine as a euphemism for class war and deposing the bourgeoisie" is written on the manager and " The guillotine, having never been involved in class war in its entire existence" is written on the employee
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago

Perhaps some pitchforks and torches, but then we’d just be degraded to a mere mob.

The problem is that's what it ends up being anyways. The revolution shouldn't be defined by how you overthrow your oppressors, but how become better than them.

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