I’ve always been bothered by the “not human” rhetoric because he’s literally describing a uniquely human behavior. No other animal engages in mass slaughter on behalf of international finance.
Of course, he’s not the mouth of god. He’s a man who’s been broken by the violence he’s seen, what he’s had to endure and what he’s forced himself to endure.
Yeah. Iosif is not a good person, but he’s definitely made out to by sympathetic, especially to us. Categorizing capital as some giant monster leashed by a handful of individuals is simply a way to cope with the fact that other human beings carried out unspeakable cruelty on him and everyone he’d ever known for the crime of making the world a better place.
It’s an assertion over what it ought to mean to be human. A well-placed bit of strategic essentialism
DE spoilers and discussion of mental illness
Yes. The character who says this line is deeply mentally ill, has been homeless for 4 decades, his mind has been rotted away by overexposure to the chemical secretions of a nearby cryptid living in the reeds, and he has issues with misanthropy in general and misogyny specifically. He also feels deeply guilty for abandoning his post in the middle of combat and feels the need to make up for it by doing random acts of terrorist adventurism from his sniper’s nest. He is a victim of capitalism, but he’s also kind of a shitty person on his own too. That’s what makes him interesting imo. And his misanthropic rhetoric is problematic and reactionary as you point out, but it makes an impact on you when you hear him say it, because it’s exactly the kind of thing a person says when they’ve had their own humanity stripped from them.
He doesn’t know about the koalas
He’s not an exemplary revolutionary at all, you know?
No other animal engages in mass slaughter on behalf of international finance.
The Bourgeois animal does, vicariously through the body of their enslaved proletariat.
Why would you do this to me
