Despoiling

According to Marx, the worker says that “using my labour and despoiling it are quite different things,” a strong rejection of exhausting exploitation, if not of exploitation as such.

Its mutilating, despoiling owner hardly seems to care.

Some have taken it to its next iteration – is a belief system that takes Man’s fall from grace and his expulsion from the Garden of Eden for despoiling it to a further conclusion – Man is inherently evil and should be killed off as much as possible.

Most of the pieces here focus on Williams’s political and environmental resistance to such marauding, including her acts of civil disobedience, their fallout, and her sustained grief and anger over the despoiling of the natural world.

Others also affirm that American privilege exists in enjoying a lifestyle that is ultimately the product of despoiling others: “My American lifestyle and the privileges I enjoy are a direct function of genocide”.

He also rejected the notion that crusaders could be regarded as martyrs if they died while despoiling non-Christians.