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Social murder
Social murder (German: sozialer Mord) is the unnatural death that occurs due to social, political, or economic oppression. The phrase was coined by Friedrich Engels in his 1845 work The Condition of the Working-Class in England whereby "the class which at present holds social and political control" (i.e. the bourgeoisie) "places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death". This was in a different category to murder and manslaughter committed by individuals against one another, as social murder explicitly was committed by the political and social elite against the poorest in society.
Social murder (German: sozialer Mord) is the unnatural death that occurs due to social, political, or economic oppression. The phrase was coined by Friedrich Engels in his 1845 work The Condition of the Working-Class in England whereby "the class which at present holds social and political control" (i.e. the bourgeoisie) "places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death". This was in a different category to murder and manslaughter committed by individuals against one another, as social murder explicitly was committed by the political and social elite against the poorest in society.
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No! We must worship capitalism like a holy cow, next only to the sacred military!
Alexander Of Assyria
Oct 2022
#3
Privatized health care. "Health" insurance which doesn't actually provide so much as a band-aid.
3Hotdogs
Oct 2022
#5
Trump and his incompetent administration committed social murder via Covid.
Lonestarblue
Oct 2022
#9
Thank you for this. I had a vague recollection of this "theory" but had forgotten it.
efhmc
Oct 2022
#13
"essentially QAnon for the 19th century" are you trying to make me laugh
Jenny von Westphalen
Oct 2022
#23