>>488457>Ehhhh… >They do stuff like this for a reason.Nope this one's just stupid, this guy proved that members of the ruling class could just be gunned down in the street. The rational response is to memory-hole this entire episode as quickly as possible. Try to co-opt Luigi's rebel brand and turn it into a commercial product. Capitalism used to be intelligent that way. If they take revenge, they increase the sociological meaning of his act, and the hoopla just serves to remind people that high-powered CEOs are just human beings as fragile as everybody else.
>Even if he's a martyr, Creating martyrs is really dumb, the acts of martyrs become virtuous, and that significantly increases the likely-hood of copycats and inspire other smaller acts of defiance.
>there are still uses for brutal crackdowns and this kind of despotism and bourgeois class war.Rule by fear is temporary. Once people figure out that they can trigger a crack-down as means to lure the brutish goons into a trap…
French resistance fighters during the late periods of WW2 had began luring fascist Jew-hunters into fire traps, the tactic was beyond ruthless, so many fascists went looking for hidden Jews and only found fragmentation grenades going off in their faces. I don't know if there was a counter because the fascists got crushed by the allied forces before they had the chance to formulate one.
Enduring despotism seems to only persist in the imperial periphery, where the power to maintain it is external. like when empires prop up despotic vassal regimes.
It does not appear like a calibrated action to entrench power, born from calculation. This appears to be reactive.