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   Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 17:35:30 JST Abolisyonista

   Let's see, Marcellus Williams, an innocent man, is executed in the United States.

   Centrist Marxist and Leninist (though not ML) Donald Parkinson, member of the Marxist Unity caucus of the DSA, says that this is bad, the death penalty is bad, and it's bad that leftists support the death penalty “because it gets in the way of their revolutionary retribution fantasies.”

   He's right. I don't like his whole Leninist deal, or his centrist Marxism, but he's right.

   MLs flock to him to say that death penalty under their dictatorship is good, actually. Saying shit like the death penalty should be abolished under bourgeoisie dictatorship, but not under their “proletarian”/“people's” dictatorship.

   What the actual fuck. A man was just murdered by the state and you want to defend your right to execute people under your dictatorship. I did not think carceral communists could stoop so low. Just generally ghoulish. I hope you all never taste power.

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     燇空 jyun kong (flowrot@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 18:47:43 JST 燇空 jyun kong

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     @abolisyonista Authcoms (and not even just authcoms) don't see people as people but merely as pawns in their political game, vessels for or against their cause, living representations. And it should never be forgotten that they and others are specifically doing this to a Black man, and in doing this reveal that their understanding of "the people," the proletariat, the masses, is still fundamentally anti-Black.