Marx's "The Civil War in France" has a lot that is still very relevant today. change some words here and there and it's identical. like we've been trapped in a loop.
"The government cries, “Incendiarism!” and whispers this cue to all its agents, down to the remotest hamlet, to hunt up its enemies everywhere as suspect of professional incendiarism. The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!
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The Commune knew that its opponents cared nothing for the lives of the Paris people, but cared much for their own Paris buildings.
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If the acts of the Paris working men were vandalism, it was the vandalism of defence in despair, not the vandalism of triumph, like that which the Christians perpetrated upon the really priceless art treasures of heathen antiquity;and even that vandalism has been justified by the historian as an unavoidable and comparatively trifling concomitant to the titanic struggle between a new society arising and an old one breaking down. It was still less the vandalism of Haussman, razing historic Paris to make place for the Paris of the sightseer!"
https://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ch06.htm
@exiliaex the complaints from the state is just it's way of broadcasting the script to all who want to align themselves with it's power so they can repeat it as a show of force. no one actually engages with this stuff on the level of reasoning, these complaints being compelling to someone is basically always someone doing some social calculus and determining that they want to be at peace with the society they exist in and then pushing back at you the agitator
@exiliaex they understand who keeps them fed and sheltered and they can tell that your self respect would ruin their ability to keep serving those above them so they preserve their position because they're not capable of escaping it
it takes only a small change in words to hear the same message - like we've been trapped in a loop.
the vandalism of these college students is less than the vandalism that's occurred all around us by the state, by profit-driven machines of extraction
in place of 'professional incendiarism' we have the language of 'professional agitators' - all deployed to transform real political coordination and action - collective resistance - into excisable tumors.
what crimes does the state justify while doublespeaking and raising the highest complaints about when others commit those crimes? like whining about encampments being 'destruction of property' while they raze gaza.