The first text that introduced me to crimethinc was this: https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too.
Having seen one too many posts around the leftist comms on the subject, I made my own small meme about it. A bit more violent than what the article suggests but I think that makes it just that much more effective.
After all what would the life described here be other than suffering:
The worst punishment anyone could inflict on those who govern and police us today would be to compel them to live in a society in which everything they’ve done is regarded as embarrassing—for them to have to sit in assemblies in which no one listens to them, to go on living among us without any special privileges in full awareness of the harm they have done.
It’s not asking for sympathy. It’s asking to understand that killing them won’t fix anything. We are up against ideas. You kill Hitler, someone takes his place. The world isn’t being run by great men who we can’t do without. It’s run by people. Shuffling the names around won’t really achieve anything, you need to destroy the thing that is giving them the power. The Ideas inside peoples heads that they need to be governed. As I put very succinctly in another comment. If we can destroy those ideas we don’t need to kill anyone as they would be powerless and if we can’t killing them won’t change anything. In fact it will just allow whoever comes after to use their death as a way to drum up support for wiping you out.
If you want vengeance then lets enact it on this plane of existence, where we know what is happening to them. If you want things to change killing individuals is simply not productive.