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“In revolutions and among the French casseurs or our Antifa activists, this may lead to violence, but one cannot explain the victimary phenomenon merely as the discharge of aggression. Whereas in pre-modern society, resentment was considered sinful, and far more often than today both led to violence and was followed by atonement, in the modern peacetime world, resentment is generally limited to verbal expressions or channeled into “progressive” political activity. The principle behind the victimary, from Robespierre forward, is that resentment, whether it give rise to direct action, to political organization, or simply to dreams of revenge, is the individual’s fundamental source of moral truth —and for this reason, it must never be called resentment, only the sense of (in)justice . But these are two labels for the same emotion; only an external authority can evaluate the “justice” of a given resentment. This evaluation will in turn affect the emotion itself in its future manifestations: that is what we (used to) call moral education . A key emphasis of our victimary era is that legitimizing the resentment of the victims offers their oppressors the chance, not to express their own resentment—such expression by the deplorables is the only emotion actually labeled “resentment” by the media—but to espouse the resentment of the oppressed—including Nature, the victim of our unsustainable demands—against those members of their own class/race/gender who fail to accept their burden of guilt.”

— Eric Gans, Toward a Globalist-Victimary Unified Field Theory* · Saturday, November 10th, 2018 · Chronicles of Love & Resentment