Luigi Mangione is a Victim of Violence. Johnson was Perpetrator of It

Luigi Mangione

Richard Mellor

Afscme Local 444, retired
HEO/GED

12-11-24

Here's the reason for the bourgeois, or big business media's, obsession with Luigi Mansion's assassination of the United Healthcare CEO. 

Workers are supposed to feel sorry for the guy Mangione shot and see Mangione as the crazed assassin. Most workers will not shed a tear for the corporate millionaire while at the same time recognizing that he has a family, children, and so on and feel for them; this is not a bad thing. It is not weakness, it’s what makes us strong and the corporate CEO and his class colleagues weak. 

 

We are human and so are the captains of industry; we are the same species. But as Marx so eloquently said, “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.” This is what makes workers different from bosses, from the purchasers of labor power, as we are the sellers of it. We are the same species but we are also different. Isn’t that what the materialists call the dialectic?

 

The owners of the mass media, want to blame the victim of violence rather than the perpetrator of it. Without a doubt, any CEO of a major corporation is by far a more efficient and prolific killer than Luigi Mangione. As far as I know, Hitler never killed anyone and Charles Manson either.

 

It doesn't matter to me if Mangione killed the CEO just to get his own back as a very sick patient in the barbaric US health care system. Oh. I'm sorry, a very sick customer in the US healthcare system, I can sympathise fully with it. What I will take issue with is certain people who will claim that Mangione is some sort of revolutionary and that this act will be the spark that sets off the revolution that will rid us of the capitalist system and usher in a better, egalitarian society based on human need and cooperation.

 

I have been away for a few days without much access to media so I am not familiar with the latest developments about the assassination and the motive behind it. If it turns out that Luigi Manzione, a young man from a bourgeois background assassinated a representative of the ruling class in the belief that it is through this method, individual acts of violence that, capitalism can be sent to the garbage can of history; he was terribly wrong. 

 

As a revolutionary Irish friend once said to me as a criticism of the IRA’s methods against the British occupation of Ireland, (the north) “they won’t be able to bomb the British out of Ireland” And capitalism will not overthrown without the intervention of the working class internationally.