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.
Of course I would have killed Hitler if I could. But I would have done so when he was actively doing harm, being the leader of genocidal movement / state etc.
I wouldnt pull the trigget when we already removed similar people from power, redistributed all their wealth, destroyed the institutions that they used to stay in power etc. I would have better things to do in that situation.
Also I think there is a difference between building some kind of system to choose, detain and kill those people on bigger scale and just doing some revenge before, during or shortly after a social revolution. I wouldn’t stop anyone from doing it, its just not something I would support as solution to a problem.