Personal want segued into political conviction for Ravachol, whose crimes were justified by the principle of reprise individuelle.Īnd the political led him to reprisals of a less individual nature, when French state violence against radicals caused him to dynamite several magistrates’ homes. If all those in need, instead of waiting took, wherever and by whatever means, the self-satisfied would understand perhaps a bit more quickly that it’s dangerous to want to consecrate the existing social state, where worry is permanent and life threatened at every moment. I could have begged, but it’s degrading and cowardly and even punished by your laws, which make poverty a crime. I preferred to make of myself a trafficker in contraband, a counterfeiter, a murderer and assassin. This is what I wanted to leave to others. Then they’ll throw a few pious words on his corpse. Let everyone scrape by as he can! What can he who lacks the necessities when he’s working do when he loses his job? He has only to let himself die of hunger. There are many people who will feel sorry for the victims, but who’ll tell you they can’t do anything about it.
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