RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116328522807584527
I've suggested guillotine as a solution to various problems in the past, and facetiously replied to many an argument with a link to the Wikipedia page for the guillotine.
But this article. This stopped me. Made me think. Hex is right. If you can use a guillotine, you've already won, and are just enacting violence.
This article is worth a read.
@quixoticgeek yeah, the jokes around guillotines are similar to 'who will be up against the wall when the revolution comes'. They are arguments of capital punishment, which is always enacted by someone in power. They are not tools to get the revolution, but used 'after'.
I do find the article lacking in where often these gets used though, during war and revolution. Where someone in power could still gain power again. Either due to external resources or significant followers.
@quixoticgeek A revolution is rarely global, and it might not have the capacity to keep the captive locked and out of communication.
Say you've just overthrown your local dictator, who has embezzled billions of your hard earned funds to off-shore accounts in a -for them- friendly nation.
They can still use those accounts to fund private armies and what not to get them out or make your life hell again. A guillotine is then a fairly manageable solution as part of the revolution.
@quixoticgeek Now when I say "death to billionaires", I don't say the people need to die, just that the "billionaire" needs to die, the person can live if they give up their extremely unfairly insane amounts of money/power.
A situation where their resources are meaningless is ideal, but not always achievable. I'm also practically minded. ;)
The guillotine can come out -if needed-, but if you'll wait for it, you've missed a large part of the struggle...
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