Mastodawn

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.

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vita something

@quixoticgeek i always recommend ppl read rhe libom article on it whenever ppl yearn over chopping ppls head off

Against the Logic of the Guillotine: Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too

Crimethinc examine the history behind the guillotine, its current popularity as a left symbol, and try to suggest a vision of liberation not based around revenge fantasies.

libcom.org