This 18th Century French Doctor Has a Solution to Oligarchy…

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• girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fun fact: the doctor in question was opposed to the death penalty, and proposed the guillotine thinking he could at least make it more humane. He deeply regretted this action and spent the rest of his life campaigning against it. His family was so ashamed that they changed their surname.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin

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  • girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    While I’m still raining on your parade:

    crimethinc.com/…/against-the-logic-of-the-guillot…

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    • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Good article. Long, but good. As it was published in 2019, it references the then current events.

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    • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      THANK YOU. The constant glazing of The Reign of Terror on lemmy is sickening. It was named like that for a reason.

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    • bunkyprewster@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve thought of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation process as example of what is encouraged by Crimethinc here and up until now as a wonderful role model.

      But today we have the white supremacists who escaped the South African revolution recreating apartheid in the US and can’t help but think it would have been better if one of them had survived.

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• Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oligarchs hate this one weird trick

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The overwhelming majority of the people guillotined during the French revolution were innocent commoners.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The point of The Terror was to burn the Révolution into the skulls of generations to come by making it so horrible the ownership class would be terrified into treating the working class nicely (this was before class consciousness, so it was the Petit Bourgeoisie that actually formed the Assemblée nationale representing the third estate. They, too, are ownership class, once Marx sorted it all out.)

    This is why heads had to be piled high. We were supposed to be scared into civility. But as the early 20th century demonstrated to us, it didn’t work, and we still have people voting for far-right parties in order to vote against neoliberalism (which is happening a lot in Europe right now, and is a sound explanation of why Trump still got so many votes.)

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• nonentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Every ethical society requires a healthy and robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.

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• mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  here’s a “fun” (read “insane”) fact: France abolished the death penalty in 1981; the last execution by guillotine took place in 1977

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  • Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And Christopher Lee was in attendance

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• UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Another fun fact: The blade wasn’t sharpened during the revolution properly, so they would have to drop the blade multiple times to get a full cut.

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  • sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh this is actual nightmare territory… Wish my brain’s imagination wasn’t so good

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• Thrawne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I want to celebrate July 14th in the states

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• in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is the only American I know of who is crazy enough to have the right idea.

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• Bernar_moustach@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not a shitpost!

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