We’re Practicing Social Murder, and It’s Highly Profitable

The solution is talking about it.

Jessica Wildfire
7 min readSep 1, 2022
Photo by Wout Vanacker on Unsplash

Most of Jackson, Mississippi doesn’t have clean drinking water right now. It’s actually not the first time, either.

The city was already under a boil water notice before floods disrupted their water service. They went weeks without water back in 2021, too. Residents say there’s constant problems.

Look at Jackson’s demographics.

We know why.

Americans practice social murder.

In 1845, sociologist Friedrich Engels coined the phrase “social murder” to describe what the elites do to the working class. Those with money and influence collude with the government to systematically rob and oppress the poorest and most vulnerable.

They deny and deprive them of the very means of survival. We’re talking about things like access to hospitals.

And drinking water…

Engels was specifically talking about Manchester, England, but what he describes happens around the world, especially in America over the last several decades, as CEOs continually lobby politicians to deregulate entire industries and funnel money their way in the form of forgivable loans and grants, funded by taxpayers.

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