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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 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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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
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the irresponsibility of the individual

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…

—p.19 Toward a materialist theory of revenge (16) by Friedrich Engels
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to hide their patterns of systemic revenge

[...] such systems project vengefulness onto those whom they oppress and exploit precisely to hide their patterns of systemic revenge [...]

—p.16 Toward a materialist theory of revenge (16) by Max Haiven
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I emerge from this book anti-anti-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…

—p.15 Introduction: We want revenge (1) by Max Haiven