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it is the oppressed who are responsible

To return to Fanon, the signature maneuver of the oppressed has always been to blame the oppressed for the dissonance between the propounded ideology of normalcy and the actuality of constant oppressive violence, to insist that it is the oppressed who are responsible for the turmoil of their lives,…

—p.42 Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts Toward a materialist theory of revenge (16) by Max Haiven
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cities are expropriated from their builders

[...] cities built - literally and figuratively, materially and culturally - by the collaborative, coperative labors of citizens are expropriated from those citizens thanks to increased housing costs; on the other, this stripping is facilitated by, and helps reproduce, finance capital. [...]

—p.25 Toward a materialist theory of revenge (16) by Max Haiven
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the violence they endured was endemic

[...] for Marx, a transformative revenge is the task of the industrial proletariat who have the historically unique possibility of avenging not only the crimes enacted upon them, but the crimes of capitalist history leading up to the present. Their capacity to elevate revenge from isolated acts of …

—p.32 Toward a materialist theory of revenge (16) by Max Haiven
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fulsome

a fulsome pornographic bouquet of neopatriarchal tropes

thought there was a negative connotation but not really i guess

—p.28 Toward a materialist theory of revenge (16) by Max Haiven
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this vengeance is endemic to the system itself

[...] The primary act of vengeance is always that of the oppressor against the oppressed, but this vengeance is presented by the oppressor as the legitimate, legal, and even benevolent, in this case the business of the East India Company. Even more profoundly, this vengeance is endemic to the syste…

—p.20 Toward a materialist theory of revenge (16) by Max Haiven