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In reply to the discussion: When rich kill the poor, it's capitalism. When the poor kill the rich, it's crime. [View all]RockRaven
(16,840 posts)2. In a 1845 publication Engels called it social murder
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.
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When rich kill the poor, it's capitalism. When the poor kill the rich, it's crime. [View all]
Coventina
Dec 7
OP
Engels describes the GOP elite and their feudal policies for Americans to a "T."
C0RI0LANUS
Dec 7
#30
It's the Gilded Age all over again, minus any pretense at good manners. The GOP wants to erase the 20th century
Hekate
Dec 7
#24
When a criminal can be POTUS or a cabinet secretary, it makes you wonder what the point of obeying the law even
Karasu
Dec 7
#23
Leona Helmsley ("the Queen of Mean" ) encapsulated the attitude perfectly when asked about her taxes...
Hekate
Dec 7
#26
Press charges for WHAT? The law protects those who work to protect shareholders interests
Attilatheblond
Dec 7
#50
Exactly. It's not murder when poor people are in the way of rich people getting more MONEY
ck4829
Dec 8
#74