In all hitherto existing class societies, violence from the top down has been regarded as the natural order, as a force of nature, and as a crime with no perpetrator. However, all violence from the bottom up is considered inconceivable, unimaginable, and horrific. One is the norm that harms millions, leads them to an early grave, rips apart families, and leaves children with distended bellies dying of malnutrition. The other fills the headlines with faux shock, awe, and spectacle over the untimely demise of a member of the bourgeoisie or the ruling echelons of class societies. How many graves have been filled with the victims of the ruling classes of every historical epoch? They are vast compared to those filled during the revolutions to overthrow them. Ruling-class society has always mystified itself with idealism; to kill the king or a ruling nobleman was to go against the order of God himself. And yet, how little our rational liberal age has changed since then, with its mystification of those that control the levers of power and the violence enacted by the systems they wield against hundreds of millions.