![]() ![]() Call it expropriation, call it exploitation, combine them and you have X squared add extraction and you have X cubed, or the formula of capitalism. ![]() It is the widespread whisper, the secret thought, the unindicted accusation as more and more are shot, gassed, get sick, starve, drown, burn, or have to move out so that entrepreneuring gentry may move in. The tendency of capitalism is the global devaluation of labor, an abstraction covering over the four-fold murders of war, famine, pestilence, and neglect that characterize our neo-liberal, incarcerating, planet-wrecking times. Who? Whom? The army massacres the Lakotas. The Haymarket hangings were preparation for mass murder at Wounded Knee (1890). “The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.” Their last words, our prologue. Their hanging was judicial murder or state sponsored terror. Their names were August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel. Who? Whom? The bosses hanged the workers. That struggle commenced on May 1 st 1886. We remember los martiros, that is the martyrs who were hanged for their support of the Eight Hour Day and the police riot at Haymarket, Chicago. It’s methodology therefore requires answers to two questions: Who? Whom? Murder is the crime, and help is the need. “M’aidez, m’aidez,” says the international distress signal. ![]() ![]() “Murther, murther, murther, murther …” shouted Free-born John Lilburne from prison. Image Source: The Haymarket Riot – Harper’s Weekly – Public Domain ![]()
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