Marx's excoriating analysis of the bourgeois response to the Paris Commune
full of trenchant fury and vengeful promises
It does not occur to any Communist to wish to revenge himself upon individuals, or to believe that, in general, the single bourgeois can act otherwise, under existing circumstances, than he does act [...] Communism, rests directly upon the irresponsibility of the individual. Thus the more [...] wor…
[...] such systems project vengefulness onto those whom they oppress and exploit precisely to hide their patterns of systemic revenge [...]
I emerge from this book anti-anti-revenge. The people who are destroying the earth and our future have names and addresses. They ought to be brought to justice. We know that, in the current system, they will not be, but also that any one of them is almost instantly, replaceable, with so many alread…
