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The Shooting That Was Inevitable

Our political system is breaking down. Now it has killed.

By Sarah Jones, senior writer for Intelligencer who covers politics and labor

In 1845, the writer Friedrich Engels accused English society of grave crimes against the working class. “When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder,” Engels wrote in The Condition of the Working Class in England. When a country deliberately subjects its proletariat to conditions that result in premature death, “its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual” — more specifically, a phenomenon that Engels called social murder. The offense can seem natural, he explained, since it is more “of omission than of commission.”

When democratic norms fail and justice feels unattainable, people will reach their limit. Some will file a lawsuit. Others will make jokes on social media. And in this country, overrun with guns and violence, a few will resort to deadlier means. Thompson’s death was preventable, as so many American deaths are. Until our political class concludes that life is more valuable than profit, there will be blood — if not in the streets, then in our hospitals and homes. Something has to give, and soon.

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