Zambian miners rise up, kill Chinese mine owner

[Vosem]

Obviously it's wrong to murder a human being, though it's hard to not sympathize with the miners.

I succeeded. Obviously a minimum wage is a key part of the sort of thing governments should do, and it should be enforced, but the very idea of strikers killing businessmen leaves a horrible taste in my mouth. Thankfully in the country where I live this sort of thing doesn't happen.

[Vosem]

Obviously it's wrong to murder a human being, though it's hard to not sympathize with the miners.

I succeeded. Obviously a minimum wage is a key part of the sort of thing governments should do, and it should be enforced, but the very idea of strikers killing businessmen leaves a horrible taste in my mouth. Thankfully in the country where I live this sort of thing doesn't happen.

You really are completely and across the board in favor of established interests and power, aren't you?

Being opposed to the murder in cold blood of businessmen isn't to do with being in favour of established interests and power.

I'm opposed to it because it's people killing people. Vosem seems to care an inordinate amount about the positions of the people in question.

Who an angry mob kills is very significant when it comes to understanding the situation and what happens next, Nathan.

[Vosem]

Who an angry mob kills is very significant when it comes to understanding the situation and what happens next, Nathan.

Precisely, which is why some of us applaud this as a possible first sign of some kind of government-changing event or process.  If not an immediate revolution, perhaps some other chaos - an 'Arab-spring' style civil war, or riots leading to a coup.. anything is better than the status-quo of utter and total capitalist domination.

With all hope such a process does not begin, and if it does that the capitalists ultimately win.