
The discussion that follows was prompted by the article: Terrorist attacks in France, Germany, America: Capitalism carries terror within itself, like the cloud carries the storm. The discussion was initiated by Fred.
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Thank you Camille for this heart felt article about TERROR. And for pointing out that capitalism has always been an expression of terror from its very inception. For as you explain exploitation itself, and the coercion that underpins it of necessity, is ultimately a terror utilised by ruling classes - the slave owners, the feudal barons, and now the bourgeoisie - against those defenceless classes who have nothing to live off except the exchange of their labour power for paltry renumeration of various kinds. And all this maintained and instituted under what is none other than a disguised reign of terror, in which all life is reduced to fear, anger, violence and futility.
Here is a recent example you so graphically describe.
Legitimised barbarity; revenge for wasted lives; and winning something through death. Is this finally what we have been reduced to? Surely not?