Shawneee
@shawneee.bsky.social
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Uncivilized. ☭ 😷 Masking is community care! My love language is dialectical materialism. "Overnight oats", "Gig economy", "Tiny home". We are just peasants who eat gruel. blacksocialists.us/resource-guide @darkaufhayyybung you here?
![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 [1] 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. I have now to prove that society in
England daily and hourly commits what the
working-men's organs, with perfect correctness,
characterise as social murder, that it has placed
the workers under conditions in which they can
neither retain health nor live long; that it
undermines the vital force of these
workers gradually, little by little and so hurries them to the
grave before their time. I have further to prove
that society knows how iniurious such conditions
are to the health and the life of the workers, and
yet does nothing to improve these conditions. That
it knows the consequences of its deeds; that its act
is, therefore, not mere manslaughter, but murder](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jpzci6vi5ygmtotzh3qnyxcc/bafkreifcs67t3vgiwugjge2vqxi3dtfzofvcakk7lbfzvwqopvhza27fsu)
