• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    The difference is that violence from the bourgeoisie is directed against the vast majority of society to keep their parasitic profits, while revolutionary violence deposes this system and liberates the working classes.

    • BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      This reminds me of a heuristic I heard about once, about “punching up” and “punching down”. I heard about it used in a stand-up comedy context but it seems to make sense in a lit of other places as well. Punching down almost always seems unjust, punching up almost always seems just.