Hello comrades. In the interest of upholding our code of conduct - specifically, rule 1 (providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all) - we felt it appropriate to make a statement regarding the lionization of Luigi Mangione, the alleged United Healthcare CEO shooter, also known as "The Adjuster."
In the day or so since the alleged shooter's identity became known to the public, the whole world has had the chance to dig though his personal social media accounts and attempt to decipher his political ideology and motives. What we have learned may shock you. He is not one of us. He is a "typical" American with largely incoherent, and in many cases reactionary politics. For the most part, what is remarkable about the man himself is that he chose to take out his anger on a genuine enemy of the proletariat, instead of an elementary school.
This is a situation where the art must be separated from the artist. We do not condemn the attack, but as a role model, Luigi Mangione falls short. We do not expect perfection from revolutionary figures either, but we expect a modicum of revolutionary discipline. We expect them not simply to identify an unpopular element of society , but to clearly illuminate the causes of oppression and the means by which they are overcome. When we canonize revolutionary figures, we are holding them up as an example to be followed.
This is where things come back to rule 1. Mangione has a long social media history bearing a spectrum of reactionary viewpoints, and interacting positively with many powerful reactionary figures. While some commenters have referred to this as "nothing malicious," by lionizing this man we effectively deem this behavior acceptable, or at the very least, safe to ignore. This is the type of tailism which opens the door to making a space unsafe for marginalized people.
We're going to be more strict on moderating posts which do little more than lionize the shooter. There is plenty to be said about the unfolding events, the remarkably positive public reaction, how public reactions to "propaganda of the deed" may have changed since the historical epoch of its conception (and how the strategic hazards might not have), and many other aspects of the news without canonizing this man specifically. We can still dance on the graves of our enemies and celebrate their rediscovered fear and vulnerability without the vulgar revisionism needed to pretend this man is some sort of example of Marxist or Anarchist practice.
The only correct response is to deny that Luigi is The Guy. Fuck Luigi. God damned fed boot licking scumbag is willing to give up his life for their lie and I hope he has the worst possible time in prison. The 3 letter agencies have created patsies before. They always lie and plant evidence. Luigi is not the guy, its an unfalsifiable Orthodoxy embrace it.
The real story that the feds wont tell you.
The Guy was a fucking hero. He killed that ceo scum. He hopped on his bike, rode into central park, Changed his clothes and walked out of there looking like a tourist. He caught a plane home. He went back to his lover's grave and told them he avenged them. He sat down and felt more alone than even the moment they had died from an illness that should have been covered by their insurance. He wept for hours for because he now knew there was nothing to hold his lover to this world but he was wrong.He was about to pass out from the exhaustion of weeping. Unbidden came the memory of their home, a "fixer-uper," the only thing they "could" afford, it was gone, eaten by medical bills, in its place there was a 4 story neo-brutalist apartment building. The whole neighbourhood was gone. He remembered the day they finally took possession of the house. He carried them over the threshold half ironically but half as a desperate plea for mercy from the reactionary ideals they offended. He set them down to the sound of creaking floorboards. "there is still so much to do." Their voice had spoken these words softly with wearied resolution at the time but now they rang in his head with defiance and anger, "THERE IS STILL SO MUCH TO DO" The Guy did have more to do. He had gotten away with it this time. The one most responsible for their death was dead but there were more CEOs and and entire world geared towards making more CEOs to replace any that might fall.
He looked down at his hands they were red with blood. He blinked and another drop of blood fell from his eyes. Yes He would soak his hands in blood, the blood of the capitalists will fall like rain. The tears of all the exploited and cheated masses would be matched by the blood of the rich. but first he would need to organize likeminded people, he needed to read more theory, he needed to let his dead love go and devote himself fully to the revolution.